Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

[John Paul Lorenti <newser@cybele.river.rhno.columbia.edu>]

-r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev.

Pete Harlan wrote:

> > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different
> > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr
> > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices
>
> Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice.  In particuar, -a
> includes the -R option, which is what you wanted instead of -r (which
> make all non-directory files into regular files: man cp).
>
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