On 05/29/2014 01:20 PM, g wrote:
On 05/28/14 09:36, 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?
> I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
> and I was not sure if this would cause problems.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
i do not know what version of 'cp' you have, but i can tell you that
"cp (GNU coreutils) 8.4" does not copy directories or files that have
a space in their name. which is why i use 'find|cpio' for disk and
directory path coping.
Hi G, you are sure?
backes@eule [~]: rm -rf 'aa aa' 'bb bb'
backes@eule [~]: mkdir 'aa aa'
backes@eule [~]: cp -xaP 'aa aa' 'bb bb'/
backes@eule [~]: ls -l aa* bb*
aa aa:
total 0
bb bb:
total 0
My /bin/cp belongs to coreutils-8.21-21.fc20.x86_64
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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