Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti 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
> in /dev. I get messages like "cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by
> device". MAKEDEV doesn't seem to create all the devices, or set the
> proper file ownerships. Is there anyway to do this other than
> re-creating the hundreds of them by hand?
When I make boot/root disks I use:
cp -dpR /dev /mnt
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Ray
maillists@sonictech.net
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