Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!haven!mimsy!brillig.umd.edu!magorian From: magorian@brillig.umd.edu (Dan Magorian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: copying A/UX Message-ID: <13935@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 88 20:43:05 GMT Sender: nobody@mimsy.UUCP Reply-To: magorian@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Dan Magorian) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Lines: 7 I am trying to copy aux on to a larger capacity drive. The problem comes when I have to copy /dev. Here is what I already tried.. 1. cp -r -wont copy /dev and changes owners to root. 2. tar -wont copy /dev. and makes directory permissions rwxrwxrwx.(all kinds of errors) 3. cpio -same as tar. 4. dumpfs is not on aux anymore so.... Any help?