Copying A/UX to another disk
    Mark Bartelt 
    sysmark at aurora.physics.utoronto.ca
       
    Mon Apr 22 21:23:53 AEST 1991
    
    
  
In article <1991Apr18.135204.11057 at jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
dundas at granite.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
| Thanks to all those that replied!  I believe that the problem is being cured
| as I write this message.  In short, mount the newly created file system on
| /mnt, and modify the pipe to include a grep -v /mnt, finally change the cpio
| destination to /mnt.  The altered command looks something like:
| 
|	find / -print | grep -v /mnt | cpio -pdlm /mnt
Well, "something like" ought to be something more like
	find / -print | egrep -v '^/mnt$|^/mnt/' | cpio -pdlm /mnt
to make sure that things like
	/mntx/spam
and
	/foo/mnt/bar
get copied to the new filesystem.
Mark Bartelt                                                    416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                                 mark at cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                               mark at cita.utoronto.ca
    
    
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