Copying by Inode

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

That's how dd works, it copies the filesystem.

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