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Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

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On 9/5/2016 7:46 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett
> <rowlett@cloud85.net <mailto: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

"archive" had brought up mental image of dusty back rooms where 
things were being preserved for posterity. Not making a copy to 
actually be used.

Someone had suggested rsync but that has too many options for me 
to bungle. "cp" may be slower but appears more comfortable.

Thanks to all.

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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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