I always use: cp -dpRv and it works just fine. :-)
At 4:32 PM -0700 6/10/99, David Robinson wrote:
>You did what?????
>
>cp -a????
>
>It gets them everytime:-)
>
>cp & symlinks are not friends...
>
>If you ever need to copy a directory or filesystem do a tar! It will not
>only keep the permissions & owner bits correct, It will also keep
>symlinks pointing the correct way..
>
>There is a trick to copy a directory from one place to another using tar
>but I can't remember it right now... something like:
>tar -cv . | (cd /newdir; tar -x --)
>I don't think that's it.... I'm sure someone else here knows it by
>heart:-)
>
>"Nixon, Shon" wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I finally have both a RAID1 and RAID5 system up and running thanks to
>> the help of Mr. Allan Noah. I am however having trouble with symlinks
>> though. I tried to start X after I got the system up and running and
>> it would seem that xfs is having trouble finding fonts. I also tried
>> to compile dosemu to use X for xdos and it states that it can not find
>> the X11 libraries? I reinstalled X (several times) and it now works
>> (some functions are hairy though) but I still get the same message
>> with dosemu. My concern is that if X is having problems, then other
>> programs may also rear their ugly head with problems in the future. I
>> used cp -a copying each directory from root (/) one-by-one to a
>> /raidtest share (md0) that I created for the raid mount of root. I
>> also have /raidtest/usr (md2) ../home (md3) & ../var (md1) raid
>> mounts. Have I missed something here? This has happened with both
>> raid1 & 5.
>>
>> Shon Nixon
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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