[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 giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices
> > in /dev. I get messages like "cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by
> > device". MAKEDEV doesn't seem to create all the devices, or set the
> > proper file ownerships. Is there anyway to do this other than
> > re-creating the hundreds of them by hand?
>
> When I make boot/root disks I use:
>
> cp -dpR /dev /mnt
... which is the same as cp -a:
man cp:
-a, --archive
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and
attributes of the original files in the copy. The
same as -dpR.
Copying / with cp works best with cp -ax, IMHO.
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