In fact you shouldn't be doing it at all unless you are running under
something like tomsrtbt or the Linuxcare CD. Then you have no probs about
/proc or anything other than what is strictly on the HDD.
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On 26 Mar 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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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