>Martin Str|mberg wrote: > >> Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files. >> Thus if you had: >> >> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ms318 erisoft 3 Apr 11 11:07 kkk -> jjj >> >> in old and did "cp -r old new/" you would get >> >> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj >> -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 kkk >> >Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as >links? The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take >up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to >do it that way.
as root, you want to move /old to /new: cd /old tar -cvf - . |(cd /new; tar -xvf - ) that makes a tarfile in a pipe so it doesn't have to sit on disk... --Zachary
