On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Bryan wrote:
> I do "cp bsd bsd.sp && cp bsd.mp bsd" I was told once that using cp
> is better in the nearly unlikely event that something panics while you
> are doing the copy...
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
I think you're backwards about this. The second cp is the dangerous
one, and if it fails, might leave /bsd corrupted. The idea is not
to save the trouble of using the console, but to insure that the
directory entry /bsd *always* points to a valid kernel. (Consider
a machine to which console access is difficult or impossible).
mv and ln are very short operations.
mv is a wrapper to rename(2).
ln is just a wrapper to link(2).
See my other post on this thread for the "official" method.
Dave
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