Copying by Inode

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
>I need to move / copy files from a smaller hard drive to a
>larger one. However, some of the commercial programs I have
>rely on copy protection by INODE registration. I was
>wondering if anyone know of a way to copy / move files from
>a smaller partition to a the larger one while keeping to same
>inode numbers. This will be to a fresh disk on the receiving
>side of things ...

Rather than worry about copying everything by inode, how about
determining the original inode used for registration purposes,
copying everything normally, then finding the file with the
appropriate inode and replacing it by copying the critical file
over that file?

Bill
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