Hi all!
I would like to thank everybody who answered my question, I could not
reply before cause I'm on exams :-(
Cheers,
Ulisses
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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
> 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 be
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> 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 root0 Jan 24 16:43 log
> crw-rw 1 root dialout4,
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
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
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> > I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
>
> Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really
> asking "I
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really
asking "I would like to know why some people seem to prefer tar or cpio
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