On 05/29/2014 01:20 PM, g wrote: > > > 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. Hi G, you are sure? backes@eule [~]: rm -rf 'aa aa' 'bb bb' backes@eule [~]: mkdir 'aa aa' backes@eule [~]: cp -xaP 'aa aa' 'bb bb'/ backes@eule [~]: ls -l aa* bb* aa aa: total 0 bb bb: total 0 My /bin/cp belongs to coreutils-8.21-21.fc20.x86_64 Kind regards Joachim Backes -- 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
