Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:23:56 schrieb Dale:
I jusr recently copied my system using cp -av and it does have a -a
option. It's in my man page as well. I have not even heard of gcp so I
don't think I have ever used it.
Yes, you did. On Linux cp _is_ gcp (GNU cp).
% LANG= cp --version
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:23:56 schrieb Dale:
I jusr recently copied my system using cp -av and it does have a -a
option. It's in my man page as well. I have not even heard of gcp so I
don't think I have ever used it.
Yes, you did. On Linux cp _is_
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 09:29:56 schrieb Dale:
I thought gcp was the command
That depends on the platform. If you install it from an OpenPKG.org RPM
package for example, you'll get it as cp as well as gcp. And AFAIK the BSD's
install all the GNU tools with a g prefix to distinguish them
Dale wrote:
D
I thought gcp was the command, so I stand corrected on that part at
least. I even thought maybe it was a GUI cp or something. I was
curious as to how that would work. scratches head
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nzwrote:
Dale wrote:
D
I thought gcp was the command, so I stand corrected on that part at
least. I even thought maybe it was a GUI cp or something. I was
curious as to how that would work. scratches head
LOL -
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 10:42:12 schrieb Dake Wang:
Joerg is obviously adverting the program star. Haha
Sure. I'd do the same if had written it.
Bye...
Dirk
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Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
CD, then what? None of this matters
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
CD, then what?
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long
time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current
Didn't you complain about gcp?
According to other posts, you wrote the program. Why not talk to the
people that make
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a little oblique
to say the least - since all Linux
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If you
use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of them
separately or use star or rsync.
Bye...
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:20:49 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:58:24 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
oh really? and which cp is the native cp on linux?
a little hint: GNU/LInux
Wrong. Native cp on Linux is whatever the user decided to install, or whatever
the distro bundled if the user left it at default.
The fact that the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:58:24 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
oh really? and which cp is the native cp on linux?
a little hint: GNU/LInux
Wrong. Native cp on Linux is whatever the user decided to install, or
whatever
the distro bundled
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
you use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of
On Sunday 21 December 2008 15:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
you use ACLs or extended attributes you
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long
time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current
Didn't you complain about gcp?
Nope. I didn't complain about. Never heard of
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for? Pitfalls to avoid,
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for? Pitfalls to avoid,
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
everything from the old drive to the new drive with:
cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
yes it does
cp --help
Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
or: cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
Copy SOURCE to DEST,
Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote:
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
yes it does
See below
cp --help
Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't care which options are
missing in Solaris' version of cp ;-)
Bye...
Dirk
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Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote:
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't care which options are
missing in Solaris' version of cp ;-)
I
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for? Pitfalls to avoid,
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 20:45:27 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote:
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've
read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data.
Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root?
If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs,
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
everything from the old drive to the new drive with:
cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking
Grant wrote:
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for?
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote:
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp?
yes it does
See below
cp --help
Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T]
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
everything from the old drive to the new drive with:
cp -ax
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
everything from
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dale wrote:
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
CD, then what? None of this
It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've
read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data.
Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root?
If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs, the default is 5% reserved. If you
put the whole disk in one
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:35:47PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
Can I change the amount reserved for root?
for ext2/3, try 'man tune2fs'.
W
--
Proof by contradiction:
Suppose the square root of 3 were rational. Then sqrt(3) = p / q, for some
relatively prime integers p and q. Hence p
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:01 -0800, Grant wrote:
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there
Grant wrote:
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
out for?
Uwe wrote:
Grant wrote:
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm
planning on going through the normal installation process except for
copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the
corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
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