On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:01:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > About the symlinks that Ron mentions, I really don't know. Just have my own > > experience to draw on. I guess if what you were cloning wasn't self-contained > > that would be something to deal with. Something for a little shell script > > after everything else was done, if it was me. > > If, say, /var, /etc and /usr are in the / partition, then "cp -a" > will work fine, but because there tend to be many symlinks between > /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks.
Boy that does seem sticky. I guess I don't understand what would happen with cp -a with hard and soft symlinks. Doesn't see like it would would with hard links (if I have any at all). So my partitions look like: /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw) /dev/sda5 on /tmp type xfs (rw) /dev/sda6 on /usr type xfs (rw) /dev/sda7 on /var type xfs (rw) /dev/sda8 on /usr/local type xfs (rw) /dev/sda9 on /home type xfs (rw) So if a link points from one partition to another I'm probably in trouble with cp -a, right? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
