On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some > > file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo? > > Say "." is /tmp. When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into > recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into /tmp > including the directory /tmp/tmp which will become /tmp/tmp/tmp... I > usually make sure to get every directory but the one I'm copying into. Or > using a rescue disk to I can have /mnt1 and /mnt2. Or using a tar that > won't traverse mount points, etc...
Actually it was /mnt/Linux and I was using the -x option to only traverse one disk :> My memory must be going or something :> Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .