Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links > were encountered. > "man cp" was too terse to be illuminating. > [snip] > > What option(s) should I be using? > Should I be looking at "dd" rather than "cp"? > [snip]
Using 'dd' may work, though it seems you need to simply add the -l option to the 'cp' command you were using. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|
