On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its : new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, : both : : cp -ax /* /mnt : : and : : ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - ) : : attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc too. ie, the -x and -l switches : to cp and tar respectively appear to be ignored. : : I would do it with the rescue disk, mounting the two partitions : as /mnt and /mnt2, except that the rescue disk (poorly named?) : seems to have a cut down cp with only -r, and no tar! : : Any suggestions?
With the old root mounted at '/' and the new root mounted at '/mnt', do: cd / find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt : : : thanks, : Hamish : -- : Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 : CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
