Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
This is why I thought my brain storm of using MC to tag/untag directories
was the ticket with the retain UID/GID set. Ofcourse since it didn't keep
the permissions of the directories this was a bite in the ass.
However! If you use mc to tag/untag the proper directories and type "cp
-a [^C t] /mnt" (^ is CTRL not the character and /mnt is wherever you want
it.) in the command line, it works like a charm on symlinks and
permissions. Moves the entire directory structure that you tag.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 "David B. Teague" <teague@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> >
> > > cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
> > > there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
> > > copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?
> >
> > Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system?
> > Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems
> > from being copied) the solution to this problem?
>
> Apparently not. I made a directory /newproc and tried cp with
> the following results:
>
> root:vc-6:~>cp -a -x /proc /newproc
> root:vc-6:~>du -s /proc
> 0 /proc
> root:vc-6:~>du -s /newproc
> 23936 /newproc
>
> I stopped the copy with ^C when I got tired of watching it sit
> there, so /newproc might have grown larger if I had more patience.
>
> > Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in
> > something like.
> > cp -ax / /mnt :(
> >
> > Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution.
>
> The x option _should_ prevent copying /mnt. Before I learned
> about the -mount option in find, I once tried a find/cpio file
> transfer and was part way through the second copy of /mnt when the
> disk became full!
>
> I have a small rescue partition that I have booted to copy one
> file system to another, and a rescue disk would do the same job.
>
> Bob
>
>
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TIA,
--Rick
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