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From: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata)
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Subject: Re: Copying A/UX to another disk
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.215727.1840@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 21:57:27 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.173127.15460@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dundas@granite.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
>Please help!  I did this once but can't seem to remember how now!  I want to
>copy my entire root file system onto another (larger) disk.  I seem to
>remember using a pipe like:
>
>	find / -print | cpio -pdl /something
>
>but this isn't working.  The actual command I am using is:
>
>	find / -depth -print | cpio -pdl /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
>
>but when issued, this command complains that it 
>"cannot write in </dev/rdsk/c1d0s0>"
>(I am root when trying).  Any suggestions?
>
>John Dundas
>dundas@salt.jpl.nasa.gov

How about mounting the partition on /mnt and saying something like,

	cd /
	find . -print | grep -v ^./mnt | cpio -pdl /mnt


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