Cannot copy a link to an external device?

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:55:50 -0800
schrieb tchomby <tchomby at bluebottle.com>:

> Quoting Gerald Dachs <ubuntu at dachsweb.de>:
> > fs. Anyway, put all files including the links into a tar archive
> > and write
> > that to the usb thumb drive.
> 
> Thanks for your help. This doesn't quite seem to work. If I just
> archive a symlink then it seems to add both the file or folder being
> linked to and the symlink to the archive. Then when I try to extract
> the archive file-roller gives errors: "Cannot open: Not a directory".
> If I make sure to archive both the original files and the symlinks in
> one .tar.gz then it extracts without error, but when I try to follow
> the link nautilus says the link is broken.

You describe exactly the expected behavior.

> Maybe I'm not following your instructions correctly?

You did everything right, but you seems not to know what a symlink is.

Gerald
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