On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:21, csj wrote: > On 20 Jun 2002 04:56:41 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot > > on /dev/hdc2, then symlinks like /vmlinuz which are now > > /new/treeroot/vmlinuz still point back to /dev/hda1 instead of > > automagically pointing to /dev/hdb1. > > Why should vmlinuz point back to hda1? It should point back to a file, > not a device.
But files don't exist out in the ether, they exist on devices. I presumed you would understand the general thrust of the paragraph. Of course, I meant that it still points back to /boot, but /boot is /dev/hda1... Sometimes being algorithmically specific clutters up the meaning. cp may break the link, but tar does not. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea | | which could only have originated in California." | | --Edsger Dijkstra | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
