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Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive



On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

> cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio.  Is
> there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
> copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?

Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? 
Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems
from being copied) the solution to this problem? 

Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in
something like. 
 	cp -ax / /mnt  :(

Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution.

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