Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > > tree, but /dev is g

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
Ok, thanks to you guys I got it working. If you're interested, here's what happened (I think). The first time I tried to copy all of the root partition using -axR. This was working until it got to one of the bttv (brooktree tv card) dev files. I think that because the card was in use (but it cou

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread ray
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices > in /dev. I ge

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
-r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev. Pete Harlan wrote: > > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
> I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice. In particuar, -a includes th