On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:14 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > /etc/fstab: > > [snip] > > > /dev/hde10 /holding ext3 user,defaults 1 2 > > [snip] > > Yup. Get rid of that "user," option. Unmount and remount (as root). Then: > > rm -fR /holding/* > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > That should give better results.
I see that everybody insists in this cp -a issue. As I said in my previous emails, directed to Anne only: cp is NOT the best choice of doing this. I had problems in the past caused by hardlinks, I think even device files (when cloning a whole disk), etc. If you ever decide to recopy those, please try: # find <directory_to_be_copied> -depth -print | cpio -adpuvm /mnt/your_new_disk with minor variations (pruning undesired paths, before piping to cpio, or removing some of those options (at a minimum -puvd, though)). NOTE: Pruning would be necessary when cloning a whole disk (replacing <directory_to_be_copied> with "/"), for things like /mnt, /proc, ... Stef
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