Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:28:06 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com> To: "'Andy Greenwood'" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right. Message-ID: <007601c6749a$28057630$0300020a@mickey> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710605101823p56f2cdd9j4510cbc268448d05@mail.gmail.com>
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My man says: -L number --tape-length number Change tapes after writing number * 1024 bytes. Nothing about symbolic links.... Now there is an option --unlink-first and --dereference... Both of which don't copy the links, but unlink or copy the actual source file. Don -----Original Message----- From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:greenwood.andy@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:24 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right. # man tar specifically, the -L option On 5/10/06, Don O'Neil <don@lizardhill.com> wrote: > Hi all... > > 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. > > What am I doing wrong here, or is my tar broken? > > _______________________________________________ > 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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