Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> it may be a little safer than cp -a (devices, not copying /proc, etc)
> and it would even preserve access times on files ;)

cp -a should be safe for devices, but you do have to unmount /proc and the
like.  It also preserves access times/modification times, but not the
status change times.
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