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 :-) -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/index.html -- 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
