Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Tony Nelson]

On 14-05-28 12:09:15, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 04:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
> >> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
> >> I've partitioned the new disk.
> >> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
> >> with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
> >> I get a lot of messages of the form
> >>  diff: a/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
> >>  diff: b/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> All the messages concern symbolic links.
> >> I see in "man cp" that  "cp -a" included
> >>  "--no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE"
> >>
> >> Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions?
> > 
> > From the man page,
> > I see no way to tell cp to copy a symbolic link as a symbolic link.
> 
> I think the Option "-P" will do it.

-a does it, but diff is complaining that the links are broken.  In my
case, /bin/acroread -> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread.

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