Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another
David L. Johnson said:
>
> Martin Str|mberg wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files.
> > Thus if you had:
> >
> > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ms318 erisoft 3 Apr 11 11:07 kkk -> jjj
> >
> > in old and did "cp -r old new/" you would get
> >
> > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj
> > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 kkk
> >
> Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as
> links?
Not that I know of. As I'm at work using Solaris I can only state that
according to the man pages cp can't on Solaris. Linux might have more options
to cp. I recommend that you do "man cp" (hint, hint, nugde, wink).
> The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take
> up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to
> do it that way.
Hmm. Well, if you do
"tar -cf - some-files-or-directories | (cd some-other-directory; tar -xpf -)",
I can't see why any big files would be created.
>
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>
And now; the larch,
MartinS
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