On 09/05/2016 05:21 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> "archive" had brought up mental image of dusty back rooms where things
> were being preserved for posterity. Not making a copy to actually be used.
>
> Someone had suggested rsync but that has too many options for me to
> bungle. "cp" may be slower b
On 9/5/2016 7:46 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett
mailto:rowl...@cloud85.net>> 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 part
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:25:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> That may have been the problem. It's possible the flash drive HAD BEEN
> formatted FAT-32. No way to tell now as I brute forced wiped drive by having
> gparted format it as ext2.
If you are going to put an extX family filesystem on
On 9/5/2016 7:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:
I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
encountered.
That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks.
That may have been the problem. It's possible the
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:46AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
> > encountered.
>
> That means the target filesystem do
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive
> I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
> encountered.
Maybe the filesystem is of a type which does not support symbolic links ?
$ cp -R ./test/softlinks /mnt/fat
cp: cannot create symbolic
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:43:44AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using
> >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test
> >
>
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were
> encountered.
That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks.
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Henrique Holschuh
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:29:52AM -0500, 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/t
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
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM 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 opera
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, 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 think what you want is t
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"
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