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Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

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On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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.
>
>
I think cp -a is your best bet. It will copy everything, shouldn't choke on
links, and will also set permissions etc correctly on the target device,
assuming you have permissions to do so (you should be doing the copy as
root, always assuming you want to keep permissions and access modes intact).

I recently used it to copy hard disk partitions to a replacement SSD (some
discussions about that are in the archives of this list) and it worked just
dandy.

Mark

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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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