Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:48:50 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info Message-ID: <03a501c6751a$c78bb860$0300020a@mickey>
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Hi all... Ok... More info for the puzzle..... I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files of 0 length, rather than re-established as links. BUT When I just: tar -cf file.tar /source/* And then: tar -xf file.tar Then the symbolic links are made correctly.... Any reason why this should work and not the piped version for 'all in one' copying?
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