On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:59, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > --snip-- > > So you have > > /dev/hda1 / > > /dev/hda2 /usr > > /dev/hda3 /var > > > > that you want to clone to /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, /dev/hdc3. > > > > You must mount, the hdc partitions, as, for example: > > /backup/hdc/1 > > /backup/hdc/2 > > /backup/hdc/3 > > > > Thus, when you copy files from hda to hdc, any absolute symlinks, > > or symlinks which have relative references that go "up and then > > down", will remain pointed back to their original files on hda. > > > > Symlinks that have multiple redirections (with mixtures of relative > > and absolute to make things even messier) also must be considered. > > Taking the above scenario and using my previous gcc example with gcc > being a symlink, and gcc-3.2 being the actual file: > > /dev/hda1 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-3.2 > /dev/hdc1 /backup/hdc/1/usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-3.2 - this one is ok > > /dev/hda1 /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-3.2 > /dev/hdc1 /backup/hdc/1/usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-3.2 - this one isn't > > Shut down the machine, swap drives, or just move the drive to the new > machine (as I believe the OP intended to do) and mount /dev/hdc1 as /. > > /dev/hdc1 /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-3.2 - Now we're ok again.
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