.gnome-desktop has a link in it (Home Directory) that points to your home directory (in which is located .gnome-desktop in which there is a link to your home directory ad infinitum). that's why it recurses forever
use tar instead to copy the directory because it will not follow links. On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I installed potato from scratch on a friends machine, and they had nifty > cdrom and floppy shortcuts that I did not have. So I, since I had their > harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After > it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root > and do a rm -r -f .gnome-desktop. Why does this directory have an > infinitly deep structure? It seems recursive to me. Ho can I copy his > .gnome-desktop to my home directory? OR, better yet, how does it work, > so I can just build one from scratch, with a home directory, a floppy > and two cd-rom icons on my desktop? > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
