On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > On Tue, 6 May 1997, you wrote: > > I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x > > option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like > > user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be mounted as > > before on the new system. > > cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is > there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from > copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? > Doesn't the x options do this? /proc is listed in fstab as a "mounted" file system, so the x option should keep it from copying. If it doesn't, just go into the copied partition afterward and delete everything but the mount point and it should work. Otherwize, I guess you could unmount /proc before you did the copy.
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