On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > 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. > > that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt. * matches > everything, remember...so cp -af /* /mnt means copy everything in / > (including /mnt) to /mnt.
Everything except filenames starting with a dot... Try "echo *" vs. "echo * .*" in your $HOME and notice why you should never backup you home dir with "cd ~ ; tar c *" (made this mistake myself once.) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
