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@eule [~]: mkdir aaaaa
backes@eule [~]: cd aaaaa
backes@eule [~/aaaaa]: ln -s ~ l
backes@eule [~/aaaaa]: cd ..
backes@eule [~]: cp -rP aaaaa bbbbb/
backes@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(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/index.html