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Have you tried the option to the cp command -x?

cp -x /* destination 

The -x forces cp to stay on current filesystem.

Regards Arild S.


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Puff@NLE
Sent: 29. august 2000 20:05
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Subject: [expert] Duping HDs in Linux


> > Next question:
> > 
> > I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. 
> There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to
> copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. 
> 
> man dd

Ok, did that, clueless.  Says it converts and copies files.  Example?

I want to basically take hda and copy it to hdc.  I found out the
hard way that copying /* also takes /proc, which isn't very fun...

Bob

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