file system copying nightmare

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its
new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt,
both 

cp -ax /* /mnt

and 

( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )

attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc too. ie, the -x and -l switches
to cp and tar respectively appear to be ignored.

I would do it with the rescue disk, mounting the two partitions
as /mnt and /mnt2, except that the rescue disk (poorly named?)
seems to have a cut down cp with only -r, and no tar!

Any suggestions?


thanks,
Hamish
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