Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links
hi ya dan
no problem with tar
no problem with hard links...
i just dont use um...if it dont work for me...i remove um
and use relative symlinks
c ya
alvin
On 15 May 2001, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com> writes:
>
> > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that
> > case since its in the same directory/partitions
> > - hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories
> > and partitions since it keeps the leading /
>
> Hardlinks can't cross partitions. Try it.
>
> The gunzip and gzip hardlinks *do* pose a problem if you use tar
> to unpack an archive and /usr is mounted in a non-standard place.
> Try it. I think this is a bug in tar.
>
> Dan
>
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