On 05/28/2014 04:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop >> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). >> I've partitioned the new disk. >> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one >> with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD) >> I get a lot of messages of the form >> diff: a/bin/acroread: No such file or directory >> diff: b/bin/acroread: No such file or directory >> >> All the messages concern symbolic links. >> I see in "man cp" that "cp -a" included >> "--no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE" >> >> Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions? > > From the man page, > I see no way to tell cp to copy a symbolic link as a symbolic link.
I think the Option "-P" will do it. Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/index.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
