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From: "Jamie Risk" <jamie_risk@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: copying file systems ...
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:35:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b19395$6c9$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)

How do I copy an entire file system, symlinks and all, to a temporarily
mounted partition? (what are the pertinent 'cp' switches?)

I've got an extra harddrive (&PC) and I want to mirror my original system
with as little work as possible.

I put the third harddrive in my system, and mounted it at "/mnt/new". Thus,
the mounts are:

/dev/hda2   /         ext2
/dev/hda1   /boot     ext2
/dev/hda3   /usr      ext3
/dev/hda4   /home     ext3
/dev/hdb1   /usr/doc  ext2
/dev/hdb2   /usr/src  ext2
/dev/hdc1   /mnt/new  ext2

Can I simply use the following command?

[bash-2.05]# cp -r / /mnt/new

- Jamie
p.s. (I'd then test the output using 'chroot')





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             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-29 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-29 17:35 Jamie Risk [this message]
2003-01-30 13:58 ` copying file systems whitnl73
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-30  0:10 BEN RITCHEY

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