copying A/UX
Marc T. Kaufman
kaufman at polya.Stanford.EDU
Tue Oct 11 10:06:21 AEST 1988
In article <13935 at mimsy.UUCP> magorian at 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 at polya.stanford.edu)
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