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| From | Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Problem selecting options for cp command |
| Date | 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se1Ff-3S7-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <se1lT-3KI-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links > were encountered. > "man cp" was too terse to be illuminating. > [snip] > > What option(s) should I be using? > Should I be looking at "dd" rather than "cp"? > [snip] Using 'dd' may work, though it seems you need to simply add the -l option to the 'cp' command you were using. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|
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Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 14:40 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 14:50 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 14:50 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 16:30 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 16:30 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:00 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-05 15:10 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 15:30 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:40 +0200
Re: Problem selecting options for cp command "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-05 15:10 +0200
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