Re: transfering to new HDD
- To: Wim Kerkhoff <wim@netmaster.com>
- Cc: kmself@ix.netcom.com, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Mary Honeycutt <mkhoney@bellsouth.net>, wind@navel.debian.org
- Subject: Re: transfering to new HDD
- From: wind@freewwweb.com (Allan M. Wind)
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:29:30 -0500
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On 2000-03-11 11:19:02, Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
> This works quite well, I just tried it. However, I got missed up
> when it didn't copy symlinks properly. I had a link /var/somedir to
> the directory /var/SomeDir, and instead of copying the link, it
> copied the whole directory so that I had to identical copies of
> /var/SomeDir. Be careful.
Hmm... assuming that we are talking about a softlink, then this should
not have happened (it would have required 'h' on the first tar).
/Allan
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