I would say nothing to worry about. The "No such file or directory" errors are usually indicative of broken symbolic links. The fact that you get "pairs" of them, one each for the source and target directories, means that you successfully copied the broken link. :)
Syntax error? You mean you didn't do a cut-and-paste from the web page? :P Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave MYERS Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tar command not working - copying /usr to /mnt PARTII Turned out we had a syntax error in the command. USER ERROR!!!!!!! The diff show these msgs....are these anything to worry about??? linclon2:/mnt # cd / linclon2:/ # diff -r /usr /mnt diff: /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml: recursive directory loop diff: /usr/lib/iwidgets: Too many levels of symbolic links diff: /mnt/lib/iwidgets: Too many levels of symbolic links diff: /usr/lib/libparted.so: No such file or directory diff: /mnt/lib/libparted.so: No such file or directory diff: /usr/share/doc/packages/libxslt/COPYING: No such file or directory diff: /mnt/share/doc/packages/libxslt/COPYING: No such file or directory diff: /usr/share/doc/packages/ltrace/ChangeLog: No such file or directory diff: /mnt/share/doc/packages/ltrace/ChangeLog: No such file or directory diff: /usr/share/doc/packages/mesa/demos: No such file or directory diff: /mnt/share/doc/packages/mesa/demos: No such file or directory diff: /usr/share/doc/packages/mesa/widgets-mesa/demos: No such file or directory diff: /mnt/share/doc/packages/mesa/widgets-mesa/demos: No such file or directory diff: /usr/share/doc/packages/wwwoffle/en: recursive directory loop diff: /usr/share/doc/sdb/en/sdb: recursive directory loop Only in /mnt: v linclon2:/ # Dave Myers Denver Solutions Group Senior Systems Engineer Office Phone:�� (303) 996-7112 Cellular Phone: (303) 619-0782 Home Office:��� (303) 948-0027 Fax:����������������� (303) 706.1713 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Myers/DSG 03/24/2004 02:47 To PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject tar command not working - copying /usr to /mnt We're using the procedure at www.linuxvm.org to copy /usr to an lvm When we enter the tar command (below) ... the prompt comes right back... 1. tar -clpSf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar -xpSf - ) Any ideas? Tia Dave Myers Denver Solutions Group Senior Systems Engineer Office Phone:�� (303) 996-7112 Cellular Phone: (303) 619-0782 Home Office:��� (303) 948-0027 Fax:����������������� (303) 706.1713 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
