Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:46:29 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com> To: "'Philip Hallstrom'" <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info Message-ID: <042e01c67522$d52fb810$0300020a@mickey> In-Reply-To: <20060511123100.C76077@bravo.pjkh.com>
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Well... I'm moving it from one file system to another of different sizes, that's the main reason. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:35 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info > 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? If it's an actual filesystem why not use dump/restore? Otherwise I'm not sure, but you might also want to add in -pS to handle permissions and sparse files as well... -philip _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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