don't use "cp" to duplicate directories. use either tar or cpio
cp was never intended to handle _everything_, and infact doesn't.
-Greg
On 17-Nov-00 Bret Hughes wrote:
> OK I gave up on the rw option for the iso mounted via loop device :(
>
> Now I am trying to get a good copy of the entire directory tree from the
> iso to another partition. I did from the root of the iso:
> cp -pdR * /new/location
>
> It appeared to work but a diff /old/location/ /new/location is giving me
> so gaff about files that are special block devices in one tree and
> special block devices on the other. Yeah I know it looks the same huh?
> There were also some file not founds in misc/src/trees/initrd/bin and
> sbin (bin is symlinked to sbin) and some more misc/src/anaconda/
> somewhere.
>
> The first problems are that several files in the sbin dir are linked to
> loader which does not exist. Problem? I guess not since that is the
> wayn it is in the iso and I have done a bunch of installs of various
> types from this iso.
>
> I hate to spend a bunch of time doing the updates I am trying to do just
> to find out something is hosed so I am ftping the directory structure
> now from a mirror. I sure would like to use the iso since I can do the
> old checksum and know that noone has dinked with file way down deep
> somewhere.
>
> Is there a better way to extract the files from the iso that to do the
> cp deal? I am just not comfortable with the device files messages. The
> -dRp options were the best I could seen from reading the man page. I
> would show the specific messages from the diff,but I am using that term
> to get the dir structure now.
>
> Any help gladly accepted.
>
> Bret
>
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Date: 17-Nov-00
Time: 13:05:52
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