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Re: [PLUG] copying a complete system to new HD
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>>>>> "JS" == Jason Staloff <jasons@dca.net> writes:
JS> Getting a recursive copy without mangled permissions isn't the
JS> problem per se. For ordinary directories, cp -pdr (or cp -a)
JS> works fine. But /dev can't be handled that way:
JS> [root@bug jason]# cp -pdr /dev testdev/
Please note, cp -a is like cp -pdR, not cp -pdr
-R can copy special files such as /dev, -r can't
-kevin
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Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>
Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly
misleading. Debug only code.
--Dave Storer
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