Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Tony Nelson]

On 14-05-28 12:28:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 06:19 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > On 14-05-28 12:09:15, Joachim Backes wrote:
 ...
> >> 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 :-)

-a includes -P, so copying symlinks is not his problem.  His problem
is that the links are broken, as reported by diff.

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