Re: Re: custom install
Hi!
Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300):
> ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful of /dev, used mc to copy this).
You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used
"cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good
choice is to use "cp -rpd" which is equivalent to "cp -a" =
"cp --archive".
Another solution -- which I have first seen in the software RAID
HOWTO -- is:
find SOURCEDIR -xdev | cpio -pm TARGETDIR
This has definitely proven to be a very clean way of copying a
whole filesystem's contents.
Cheers, Marcus
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Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
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