Upgrading to a new Hard Drive

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Install new hd as hdb or whatever works in the machine, then partition
> it as you want it, do mkfs and mkswap as necesary on the new partitions,
> then mount new root partition as /mnt or something, and cp -ax / /mnt to
> copy all the files over.  Doing this in single user mode has the least
> chance of files being open/in use.

What does the x option add to cp -a?
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