Barry Spindler on Thu, 6 Jul 2000 04:27:22 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] copying a complete system to new HD


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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