Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion
XE746
Toomas Aas
toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Sat Dec 18 03:15:22 PST 2004
J. Seth Henry wrote:
> It crapped out on /rescue. On the SCSI disk, /rescue is 3.5MB. When I checked
> the ATA drive after stopping the copy, the directory was at 95MB (and the
> filesystem hopelessly full at 109%). I tried again using copy with the same
> results. Then, I tar'ed the folder, and extracted the tar file to the ATA
> drive. That worked, the folder was 3.5MB just like the SCSI drive. I found I
> could move files reliably from the SCSI drive to the ATA drive using tar, but
> not cp.
>
> I can (so far) copy files between slices on the same disk with cp without
> error. For example, I can copy a binary from /usr to /, and the file is
> identical.
Sorry, I can't explain the rest of your problems, but I can explain
this one.
The files that you see in /rescue are actually all hard links to one
file (check it with ls -li and you see that they all have the same inode
number).
And from man cp we read:
Note that cp copies hard linked files as separate files. If you
need to preserve hard links, consider using tar(1), cpio(1), or
pax(1) instead.
Cheers,
--
Toomas
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