On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > > cd / > > > mount /dev/somedisk /mnt > > > cp -a * /mnt > > > > > > See the mess? ( /mnt/mnt/mnt/... ) > > > > You could add the -x switch. This skips subdirectories that are not on the > > same filesystem as the directories you are copying. > > > > cp -ax / /mnt > > Trouble is that cp -ax will not copy /dev it treats them as normal files, > it might also have problems with fifos and sockets.. > > tar -cl / | tar -x /mnt > > Doesn't have these problems though
I disagree. # cp -ax /dev /tmp # cd /tmp/dev # ls -l hda log ttyS0 xconsole brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 4 20:36 hda srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 24 16:43 log crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jan 25 02:54 ttyS0 prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 02:54 xconsole # Seems fine to me. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
