Re: tlug: Cross-device link error

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Scott Perlman wrote:

> Personally I typically use tar, but I think if you remove the l from
> your cpio command things will work.
> 
> This is an assumption, as I haven7t dug into cpio, but the 'l' option
> is trying to create hard links, and then remove the original
> directory entry, this obviously will not work across file systems.
> 
> (BTW using tar to copy directory hierarchies:
> tar -cf - ./SOURCE | (cd TARGET ; tar -xf - )
> then rm at leisure.)

only problem is tar doesn't handle special files like /dev entries, so tar
isn't always suitable.

> 
> -Scott
> 
> Sean Bennett did state upon Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:29:22PM +0900:
> > Hi all;
> > 
> > ...as usual, this is on a FreeBSD2.2.6 box, but this group is always
> > such a good bunch :-)...
> > 
> > I was using  cpio to move a directory tree from /var to /usr , but I
> > encountered a 'cross-device link' error;  ok, I can gather it doesn't
> > like cross-linking things, but can anyone shed a little more light on my
> > likely problem?
> > 
> > The command, and subsequent error messages:
> > 
> > sean# cd /var
> > sean# find apache -print | cpio -pdluam /usr/local
> > cpio: cannot link apache/apache_1.3.0/src/ap/.indent.pro to
> > /usr/local/apache/ap
> > ache_1.3.0/src/ap/.indent.pro: Cross-device link
> > cpio: cannot link apache/apache_1.3.0/src/ap/Makefile.tmpl to
> > /usr/local/apache/
> > apache_1.3.0/src/ap/Makefile.tmpl: Cross-device link
> > cpio: cannot link apache/apache_1.3.0/src/ap/ap.dsp to
> > /usr/local/apache/apache_
> > 1.3.0/src/ap/ap.dsp: Cross-device link
> > cpio: cannot link apache/apache_1.3.0/src/ap/ap.mak to
> > /usr/local/apache/apache_
> > 1.3.0/src/ap/ap.mak: Cross-device link
> > ...<snip>
> > 
> > Thanks as always,
> > 
> > Sean
> > sean@example.com
> > 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
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