From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 11:15:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1A016A4D1 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:15:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from MXR-4.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2960D43D46 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:15:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from [80.235.60.138] (80-235-60-138-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [80.235.60.138]) by MXR-4.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8CFEE867; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:15:18 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <41C4111B.7030209@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:14:35 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Seth Henry" References: <200412171355.18153.jshamlet@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200412171355.18153.jshamlet@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at neti.ee cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:15:22 -0000 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