Re: file system copying nightmare

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 19980208184901.61633@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>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.

They are not ignored - you are asking both tar and cp _explicitly_ to
copy /mnt and /proc, because of the '*'. If anything was mounted _under_
/mnt or /proc, that would not be copied.

Try:

cp -ax / /mnt

or

( cd /; tar clf - . ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xvf - )

Mike.
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