Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/05/2016 05:21 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > "archive" had brought up mental image of dusty back rooms where things > were being preserved for posterity. Not making a copy to actually be used. > > Someone had suggested rsync but that has too many options for me to > bungle. "cp" may be slower

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:46 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett > wrote: I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:25:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > That may have been the problem. It's possible the flash drive HAD BEEN > formatted FAT-32. No way to tell now as I brute forced wiped drive by having > gparted format it as ext2. If you are going to put an extX family filesystem on

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were encountered. That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks. That may have been the problem. It's possible the

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:46AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > > encountered. > > That means the target filesystem

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > encountered. Maybe the filesystem is of a type which does not support symbolic links ? $ cp -R ./test/softlinks /mnt/fat cp: cannot create symbolic

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:43:44AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > encountered. That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks. -- Henrique Holschuh

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:29:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition >

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I

Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were encountered. "man