Hi! Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300):
> ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful > of /dev, used mc to copy this). You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used "cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good choice is to use "cp -rpd" which is equivalent to "cp -a" = "cp --archive". Another solution -- which I have first seen in the software RAID HOWTO -- is: find SOURCEDIR -xdev | cpio -pm TARGETDIR This has definitely proven to be a very clean way of copying a whole filesystem's contents. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald ยท http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
