-x doesn't work in cp

2003-08-14 Thread Pär Lidén
Hello. It seems -x doesn't work in cp. When I tried to copy my whole "/" filesystem to a new, freshly formatted filesystem, cp did copy files in /devfs, /home and /proc, despite these being different filesystems. This is very bad, cause the whole process hung when cp tried to cop

Re: -x doesn't work in cp

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pär Lidén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems -x doesn't work in cp. When I tried to copy my whole "/" > filesystem to a new, freshly formatted filesystem, cp did copy files in > /devfs, /home and /proc, despite these being different filesystems. This > is very