Re: tlug: Cross-device link error

[Scott Perlman <perlman@example.com>]

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.)

-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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