Re: Moving partition

[Frank Barknecht <barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>]

Alexander Kushnirenko hat gesagt: // Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:

> > On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote:
> > > I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
> > > In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while
> > > ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
> > 
> > Symbolic links are just names of files. If the path of the destination
> > stays the same (/usr is still /usr, even though the mount table is
> > different) you shouldn't have problems just using cp. But I haven't done
> > this before in truth.
> 
> I'm not sure about that.  If I got it right plain cp will copy the file, it 
> will not create a symobolic link.  So your symbolic link structure will be 
> ruined.  tar on the other hand preserves it.

The cp from GNU can be used with the option "-a". It will then copy
symbolic links as well. (see "man cp")

I always use "cp -ax" to copy whole partitions because I cannot memorize
command lines with more than 8 characters. 
-- 
                                                     __    __
 Frank Barknecht           ____ ______   ____ __ trip\ \  / /wire ______
                          / __// __  /__/ __// // __  \ \/ /  __ \\  ___\	
                         / /  / ____/  / /  / // ____// /\ \\  ___\\____ \	
                        /_/  /_____/  /_/  /_//_____// /  \ \\_____\\_____\
                                                    /_/    \_\