On Fri 02/05/2003 16:46:30, Tarragon Allen wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2003 04:26 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > Tarragon Allen hat gesagt: // Tarragon Allen wrote:
> > > Something like this?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/part2
> > > cp -av /mnt/part1 /mnt/part2
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > cp -av /mnt/part2 /mnt/part1
> >
> > 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"
> ..
-x, --one-file-system
stay on this file system
Which is different from not following links. This prevents filesystems
mounted within the one to be copied from being copied.
>
> t
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