On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 9:55 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Just doing a last check before carrying on with the procedure, > > when I found things that concern me. > > > > /holding has a locked /lost+found directory > > > > Some directory sizes are not identical with their /usr sources: > > > > /bin - old 44.0 KB, new 36 KB > > /include - old 16 KB, new 12 KB > > /lib - old 44 KB, new 40 KB > > > > The contents of /bin, in both cases shows 1956 items - 1955 files > > (135.8 MB Total) > > > > /include and /lib appear to be equally matched, so what exactly > > is being reported by these differences? > > I bet you did cp not cp -a.... So that happened is that the > symlinks in the original dir became files in the new directory. > The -a is archive and what it does is copy symlinks as symlinks > (hard or soft) regular ol cp sees 2 files and copies them over. > Honestly, James, I copied the command exactly as it was given - cp -a /usr/* /holding/ then checked it carefully before hitting enter.
Then I followed Jan's mv /holding/usr/* /holding/ I presume that since the correct number of files are reported, and the correct size inside the directory it should be ok to continue? Anne
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