Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: SUN Transcript Message-ID: <1689@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 05:22:16 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 27 Keywords: Miscellaneous Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 135, message 7 of 14 In article <1319@brazos.Rice.edu> edm@nwnexus.wa.com (Ed Morin) writes: :X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 112, message 2 of 14 : :One thing that bothered me about Sun's Transcript is that when the fonts :are originally tar-ed off the distribution tape, there exist a number of :links between files which same a considerable amount of space. During the :course of installation the entire set of font directories are cp -r over :to their final destination. The problem is that all of the link in- :formation is lost and the disk bloats out. : :My solution was to remove the tree after the installation and do a tar :copy of the distribution tree to preserve the links and save my disk :space. It was quite time consuming though and their installation should :have been much more intelligent about it all... When I move things around and need to maintain symbolic links, I do not use cp -r at all. I use tar, and pipe the output to another tar job that immediately extracts it at its destination. e.g. (cd /source/.. ; tar cd - source ) | ( cd /dest/.. ; tar xvf - ) Be careful you do not have 'cd' aliased though. -David- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110