I am trying to move the kernel source to another drive but there is a hard link somewhere in the source. How can I locate the link and what it is pointed to so I can recreate the link on the new drive?

If you want the kernel source to be located
on a different partition (or drive), you
could copy the contents of /usr/src to the
new partition, then mount that partition
at /usr/src.

I do not know if this is what you are after,
but it is one approach.

HTH,

Ernie Registered Linux User 247790
ICQ 41060744

Thats pretty much what I tried to do via Midnight Commander but it made mention of a hard link that it couldn't recreate in the new partition. Apparently one of the files in the tree was a hard link to to some other file in the tree. I want to move that hard link over to but you just can't copy those like you can with a symlink. Does anyone know of a utility that can make the hard link in the new partition? Or some other copy method that would have the same effect would be fine.

Hello Arcosanti,

This might be difficult to do if you don't know the file in question. I think this page might be helpful: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cach...

I know the "file" command should tell you what the file is a link to, after you figure out what file it is.

Good luck.

technoguy

Wow, I havne't used umsdos since kernel 2.0.30. I'm using reiser which so far as I am concerned is plowing ext2 into the ground in stability after a system crash. I did a little experiment this morning with Midnight Commander. I created a hard link to my boot kernel in the root directory asnd then used Midnight Commander to copy it to the other drive. It actually copied. I then deleted both of the hard links and tried to copy the kernel tree again this time making sure not to check the follow links option. It copied over with no problem this time. I guess Midnight Commander can't copy over links if it follows them.

IIUC, follow links causes mc to
attempt to copy the data to which the link
points as part of the copy procedure (rather
than to copy the link), which may not always
be possible for a variety of reasons. By
disabling follow links, you tell mc
to treat the link as a file.

HTH,

Ernie Registered Linux User 247790
ICQ 41060744