I have 30GB vfat USB stick.
I want to copy (cp -ar
)a folder with 2.3GB of data to that USB stick, but the copy process does not work properly.
The directory tree is not copied correctly.
rsync -ahr
does work.
I have 30GB vfat USB stick.
I want to copy (cp -ar
)a folder with 2.3GB of data to that USB stick, but the copy process does not work properly.
The directory tree is not copied correctly.
rsync -ahr
does work.
Hello @Keruskerfuerst
So you want to preserve symlinks and copy files recursively?
Example?
As I know, vfat has no support for symlinks/hardlinks. The only thing what you could really preserve there are timestamps and names. vfat has no ACL support.
I want to copy recursively.
Here is an example:
(system, home dir, documents) Folder A contains folder B and folder C.
Is copied as follows:
(root dir of USB stick) Folder A contains folder B , but folder C is in root dir of USB stick.
try this:
cp --verbose \
--recursive \
--update \
--preserve=timestamps \
/usb/folderA/ /system/folderA/