On 14/12/99 hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu wrote:
they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive.
you might try (cd / ; tar -cvpf - lib) | (cd /mnt/ ; tar -xvpf -) instead of cp -R change the cd command to the appropriate places, tar does a better job preserving symlinks then cp does, actually i think you have to use cp -a and/or -p for it to even attempt to preserve symlinks, that would cause libraries to not be copied over quite right.
when recursively copying directories with links though tar is a much better option IMO.
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