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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: copying A/UX
Message-ID: <4392@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 88 00:06:21 GMT
References: <13935@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <13935@mimsy.UUCP> magorian@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Dan Magorian) writes:
->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?

Assuming that the file system on the larger drive is mounted on /mnt   :

	find /dev -depth -print | cpio -pdm /mnt

works properly (when invoked from /).

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)