Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

From: Alex Malinovich (demonbane_at_the-love-shack.net)
Date: 07/29/03

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Date: 29 Jul 2003 01:27:56 -0500

    On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:55, Alan Connor wrote:
    > > From ron.l.johnson@cox.net Mon Jul 28 16:24:31 2003
    > >
    > >
    > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote:
    > > /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks.
    > >
    > > If there's a little shell script that can handle multiple symlink
    > > redirection, I'm not smart enough to think of it...
    > >
    >
    > Well. I'd start by using find to list all the symlinks that pointed to
    > another device
    --snip--

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would it matter? i.e. If a
    symlink points to /usr/bin/gcc-3.2, and you copy it somewhere else,
    it'll still point to /usr/bin/gcc-3.2 and if it points to just gcc-3.2
    it'll continue to point to gcc-3.2 in the current directory, wherever
    that happens to be. So unless you're copying / to /backup or some other
    silly thing, this should be ok, right? Or am I missing some of the finer
    points of multiple mounts throughout the filesystem? 

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