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

No need. Use -x.

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