On 9/15/06, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I plan to configure a device to boot from a CF card, but to reduce writes to
the CF, run /tmp /var and /dev from a memory (mfs) drive.
When preping the device, I copy the contents of the /var directory to another
directory path. When 'swap mfs' in the fstab file mounts the mfs drive, the
contents of the that directory is copied there.
However, when I copy files to the new directory with the command:
cp -rp /var /mfstmp/var
I get
cp: /var/cron/tabs/.sock: Operation not supported
cp: /var/empty/dev/log: Operation not supported
Is there any ugly problems that may come about later without these socks or
file?
I am doing similar things, but I use
find /var |cpio -o -Hustar|gzip -9 > varXX.tgz
I don't have this problem. You can leave out the gzip part, too.
