Dexter Graphic wrote: > I just tried copying my /home partition to a new partition on another > disk (both with cp and with tar) and I got a bazillion "Operation not > permitted"s and "Cannot create Symlink too..."s. Although, in both cases > lots of files and folders did get copied. (Yes, I am logged in as root.) > > Here are the commands I issued from my /home directory: > > cp -a * /mnt/newpartition > > tar cf -. | (cd /mnt/newpartition ; tar xvpf -)
If you still haven't resolved this problem, how about sending us the exact messages you're getting from tar? Oh, and you can leave the "v" out (i.e. "tar xpf -" instead of "tar xvpf -") and tar will only print the errors. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
