Re: cp -a

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:

> > Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some
> > file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo? 
> 
> Say "." is /tmp.  When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into
> recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into /tmp
> including the directory /tmp/tmp which will become /tmp/tmp/tmp...  I
> usually make sure to get every directory but the one I'm copying into.  Or
> using a rescue disk to I can have /mnt1 and /mnt2.  Or using a tar that
> won't traverse mount points, etc...

Actually it was /mnt/Linux and I was using the -x option to only traverse
one disk :>

My memory must be going or something :>

Jason


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