I always thought you needed the -X option to pax to prevent it from
moving across a mount point...

The example commands will, of course, copy the entire directory from
source to destination.  But if there is a file system mounted somewhere
within the source directory, that whole file system will get copied to
the destination unless you use the -X.

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Thilo Manske wrote:
> 
> : > pax -rwpe foo bar
> : 
> : Hmm. Does pax deal hardlinks right?
> 
> Yes.  This is the best solution when you aren't moving an entire
> filesystem; pax deals with device nodes, symbolic links, hard links, and
> permissions.
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)
> 
> 

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