Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:14:35 +0200 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746 Message-ID: <41C4111B.7030209@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200412171355.18153.jshamlet@comcast.net> References: <200412171355.18153.jshamlet@comcast.net>
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J. Seth Henry wrote: > It crapped out on /rescue. On the SCSI disk, /rescue is 3.5MB. When I checked > the ATA drive after stopping the copy, the directory was at 95MB (and the > filesystem hopelessly full at 109%). I tried again using copy with the same > results. Then, I tar'ed the folder, and extracted the tar file to the ATA > drive. That worked, the folder was 3.5MB just like the SCSI drive. I found I > could move files reliably from the SCSI drive to the ATA drive using tar, but > not cp. > > I can (so far) copy files between slices on the same disk with cp without > error. For example, I can copy a binary from /usr to /, and the file is > identical. Sorry, I can't explain the rest of your problems, but I can explain this one. The files that you see in /rescue are actually all hard links to one file (check it with ls -li and you see that they all have the same inode number). And from man cp we read: Note that cp copies hard linked files as separate files. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar(1), cpio(1), or pax(1) instead. Cheers, -- Toomas
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