On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 20:25, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > > > One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing > > back to the original "real" file, even though the "real" file has > > also been copied to the dest drive. > > Only absolute symlinks, which are relatively rare; and if he's cloning a
/etc/alternatives is chock full of them. Relatives could still be a problem, depending on what kind of redirect- ion there is. > drive I'd assume he's planning to mount it in the same position in the > filesystem anyway? What does that mean? How can you do that if you want to clone a disk on a live system? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
