On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 03:17, Martin Polley wrote: > The way I did this was to boot from CD (e.g. LiveCD) and then do the > copy operation. That way /dev comes out the way it should. > > HTH,
Well that was the ticket. Its a bummer that I have to take a system off line to do this. I used to be able to do it hot. (/var is NOT on my root partition for this reason). I wonder if a script could be developed that would read /dev, and create the correct /dev on the copy? If I knew the rules I would contribute such a script. Sigh... at least I have now managed to get off of reiserfs which was already beginning to eat itself up -- a few weeks back my system became unbootable until I did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree which fortunately worked. I'm back on ext3... which is nothing if not stable. I do use NFS, and it seems (based on recent posts to this list) that NFS and reiserfs do not get along so well). My other system which was also reiserfs I am converting now. Thanks again, Lincoln -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
