On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: : On 4/1/2000 Sylwester Zelazko wrote: : : > While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files. : >Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way : >to recreate them except installing again ? : : this is why its better to use tar instead of cp but cp -a might do : the copy correctly. another option is cpio, but I am not quite used : to using that utility yet. : : (cd / ; tar -cvpf - usr) | (cd dest ; tar -xvpf -)
cpio is easy to use once you get used to its twisted ways of thinking :) find /usr | cpio -padm /target Mount the target partition on "/target" (/mnt is a good choice) use `find -xdev' if you want to confine find to one partition e.g `find / -xdev' will only find files on the root partition and won't enter mounted partitions ... HTH, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
