cp -a most assuredly works. gets me where i am going every time :)
allan
Chris Jester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 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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