Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Nope, and for the same reason you just pointed out for /proc. /mnt is a
"real" mounted file system. Even so, if -x were left out, I don't think
the copy would go recursive because the directory information is not
complete for /mnt until the copy is complete (I could be wrong on this,
but I think it should work)
Luck,
Dwarf
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