Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another
Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files.
> Thus if you had:
>
> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ms318 erisoft 3 Apr 11 11:07 kkk -> jjj
>
> in old and did "cp -r old new/" you would get
>
> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj
> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 kkk
>
Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as
links? The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take
up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to
do it that way.
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