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Re: [PLUG] copying a complete system to new HD
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Hmm.. I just tried
# cp -a /dev/ /dest
and it worked fine...
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:48:54PM -0400, Jason Staloff wrote:
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Getting a recursive copy without mangled permissions isn't the problem per se. For ordinary directories, cp -pdr (or cp -a) works fine. But /dev can't be handled that way:
>
> [root@bug jason]# cp -pdr /dev testdev/
> cp: /dev/adb: Input/output error
> cp: /dev/adbmouse: Resource temporarily unavailable
> cp: /dev/atibm: No such device
> etc...
>
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