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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to Copy Contents from CD to Hard disk Post 38058 by norsk hedensk on Sunday 6th of July 2003 12:20:41 AM
Old 07-06-2003
somethign that migrants from windows to (unix
)'s might find confusing is the concept of one single file system hierarchy ( dont mind the spelling, its late). the different drives in windows, C: D: E:, etc etc, is a mistake left over from something never fixed in earlier versions of DOS. DOS has a merge command that will put and E: drive in a C:\somefolder\E which is similar to the UNIX filesystem. every single device in UNIX, be it the monitor or hardrive in unix will be located in the /dev/ directory. so lets say the first IDE drive which would have been C: in windows is mounted as /. this drive is really /dev/hda. probably /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 is the boot partition. anyway, if you wanted to copy a file from a cdrom, well, if I wanted to, i would put it in my home directory. so after executing the command mount /dev/cdrom (that should be in your /etc/fstab for convienience) i would execute, cp /cdrom/myfile /home/user1/myfile
the file located on your cdrom would then be copied to user1's home directory as 'myfile'. i hope that was clear and understandable. i just re read that and it looks alright. i will read it again and fix anything that dosnt make any sense tomorrow. hope that helped!
Last edited by norsk hedensk; 07-06-2003 at 12:02 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

cpio.h

cpio.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							     cpio.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cpio.h>

DESCRIPTION

       Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows:

	    Name		       Description
       -----------------------------------------------------------
       C_IRUSR		 Read by owner
       C_IWUSR		 Write by owner
       C_IXUSR		 Execute by owner
       C_IRGRP		 Read by group
       C_IWGRP		 Write by group
       C_IXGRP		 Execute by group
       C_IROTH		 Read by others
       C_IWOTH		 Write by others
       C_IXOTH		 Execute by others
       C_ISUID		 Set user ID
       C_ISGID		 Set group ID
       C_ISVTX		 On directories, restricted deletion flag
       C_ISDIR		 Directory
       C_ISFIFO 	 FIFO
       C_ISREG		 Regular file
       C_ISBLK		 Block special
       C_ISCHR		 Character special
       C_ISCTG		 Reserved
       C_ISLNK		 Symbolic link
       C_ISSOCK 	 Socket

       The header defines the symbolic constant:

	 MAGIC	       "070707"

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    10 Sep 2004 						     cpio.h(3HEAD)
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