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On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
>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? 
yes

>Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in
>something like. 
>       cp -ax / /mnt  :(
But as the originial poster wanted to copy all to another disk, /mnt is
the mountpoint of the filesystem on the new disk and is therefore excluded
by the 'x' option as well.

Nils

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