Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Joachim Backes]

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.

Joachim Backes

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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
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