Copying by Inode

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 10:08, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 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 ...
>
> dd ?

I don't think that dd would preserve the inodes unless you copied the entire 
file system over.

cmr
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