Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Joachim Backes]

On 05/28/2014 06:19 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Are you sure? I did the following:


backes at eule [~]: mkdir aaaaa
backes at eule [~]: cd aaaaa
backes at eule [~/aaaaa]: ln -s ~ l
backes at eule [~/aaaaa]: cd ..
backes at eule [~]: cp -rP aaaaa bbbbb/
backes at eule [~]: ls -l bbbbb
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 backes backes 12 May 28 18:26 l -> /home/backes

(r is used for recursivity)

So "-P" will do it :-)

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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Kernel-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64


Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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