[buug] disk clone

[Ian Zimmerman]

Rick> Given that you say GNU tar handles special devices, that's
Rick> pleasant news, but it seems likely that it does so with or
Rick> without -f (i.e.  without regard to the target).  I never count
Rick> on that with any tar implementation, personally.

It does work, and that's what I use for Rob's purpose.  I have done it
that way for a long, long time; but now I in fact have no choice,
because there's no dump/restore for reiserfs.

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