Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes: > > BTW, I discovered that "cp -a * /mnt" did not do a very nice job of > > duplicating Hurd on another partition. It messed up all the device > > files. I decided to reinstall from the tarball to give me a nice clean > > environment and test it out as well. > > cp does not (yet) copy the Hurd attributes (e.g. the passive > translator settings). cp should not copy passive translator settings.