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. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
