>Trying to move /usr directory to a second hard drive. When doing cp -r -p *
>am receiving errors that: "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link".
cp gets a bit lost by symlinks. Or maybe it is me who gets confused by cp.
Basically, I shun using cp -r. Try something like:
(cd /usr && tar cf - .) | (cd /mnt/elsewhere && tar xfp -)
this writes a tar of /usr to stdout (replete with file permissions,
attributes, dates, symlinks, the whole damned business...), piped to another
tar that restores the /usr filesystem underneath /mnt/elsewhere (which ought
to exist beforehand).
IIRC, I first came across this idiom in the Tips or Dos-To-Linux HOWTO.
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