Re: Copying only root directory
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
: Until I get to the root partition, that is. I've been through a
: half-dozen books reading up on cp and dd and various commands and I
: can't come up with a way to copy only the subdirectories on my 64 meg /
: partition to the new / partition. I know this is an easy one; can
: someone shed some light on me please? Thanks in advance.
mount /dev/newrootdevice /mnt
cd /
find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
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