Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

[Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>]

Richard Owlett wrote:
> I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using
>     cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test
>
> /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition
> /media/richard/test   is a USB flash drive
>
> I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links 
> were encountered.
> "man cp" was too terse to be illuminating.
> [snip]
>
> What option(s) should I be using?
> Should I be looking at "dd" rather than "cp"?
> [snip]

Using 'dd' may work, though it seems you need to simply add the -l
option to the 'cp' command you were using.

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