Hallo,
Tarragon Allen hat gesagt: // Tarragon Allen wrote:
>
> > Make VERY SURE, that you use the -x switch:
> >
> > cp -avx
> >
> > to not copy things from other partitions, that are symlinked.
> > Otherwise this is also my solution: It is equivalent to the tar-pipe,
> > whose syntax I never remembered...
> >
> > ciao
>
> I thought that would be handled by the -a, which basically turns on -dpR ..
> the -d being the important one - "same as --no-dereference --preserve=link"
> ..
>
Uhm, yep, my explanation was wrong:
-x, --one-file-system
stay on this file system
means: don't copy direcories, that are mountpoints....
ciao
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