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. to insure that i have all directories and files, i open a terminal at top of copy source and target paths and run 'ls -lR > 00-path'. then i use kwrite to open files, move to bottom of files and compare the line number to insure all has been copied. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g . -- 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
