On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
> there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
> copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?
Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system?
Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems
from being copied) the solution to this problem?
Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in
something like.
cp -ax / /mnt :(
Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution.
--David
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