Re: Linux root mirror recipie

[Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz]

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:36:25PM +0100, A James Lewis wrote:
> 

Hi!

Just one minor suggestion:

> 5. Copy filesystem to new array, mounted on /mnt.
> 
> moo:/# for i in `ls | grep -v mnt | grep -v proc`
> > do
> > cp -dpR $i /mnt
> > done
> 

I do this by:

 cd /
 find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt

If you look at the man-page of find, you will find out why
this is a simple and universal way. Moreover, you won't have
to create /mnt and /proc afterwards.

Greetings,


Georg