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 - *
At 09:03 + 1998-02-08, David Maslen wrote:
>In the past I used a rescue disk, called I think rescue that I got from
>the linux archives at sunsite. It's probably a boit out of date by now.
>I really should learn how to make my own rescue disk, but it would
>be nice if there was a debian one tha
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:45:04PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > cp -ax /* /mnt
> > > ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
> > >
> > that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt. * matches
> > everything, remember...so cp -af /*
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,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:45:04PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > cp -ax /* /mnt
> > ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
> >
> 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 /
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, an
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,
On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 11:57:21PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> tar is broken to stdout in bo, you need to get the tar in bo-unstable for
> it to work.
This is on my hamm system, up to date as of about a month ago. Any
ideas why that doesn't work?
> cp will never work ... it breaks when you get
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