Thomas Adam wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:33:53PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
Gak! I've just thought. What do I do with all of the weird stuff in /proc and /dev? Will cp handle these things seamlessly, or will I have to create
/proc and /dev are virtual. What you should therefore do is omit these from your cp. When you chroot into your new install you can do:
cd /dev && MAKEDEV generic
to create your /dev nodes.
Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of restoring the directory.
Why doesn't someone read the man page for cp? It tells you how not copy /proc.
man cp
Personally, I prefer
tar ... | tar
which seems to work far better for me than cp.
man tar
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