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 :-)