Re: Installing pure64 from scratch

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:40:49PM -0800, Dan Helfman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:56, Josh Hansen wrote:
> > >How exactly are you copying the files?
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > First I extract the tarball using tar -xvjf
> > Then I enter the directory created and copy the directories using cp -r 
> > ./* /mnt/debian64
> >
> > Perhaps there is a permissions preservation problem?
> 
> Quite possibly. Try cp -ar instead.

Even that is likely not a good choice.  You should either unpack the tar
directly, or:

mkdir newpath
cd oldpath
tar -cSpf - . | tar -xvSpf - -C /newpath

cp -a does not, afaik, preserve hard links nor sparse files.

-- John