> Joel Young ecrivit:
> > say other partition is on mount,
> >
> > cp -a / /mnt
>
> This will copy /mnt to /mnt/mnt. The problem is, that as /mnt gets
> filled by the cp, when cp starts copying /mnt to /mnt/mnt you will get
> the files that are in /mnt (i.e. those copied from / to /mnt so far)
> copied to /mnt/mnt. Ouch. If you get my drift...
>
If you're worried about that, how about:
cp -ax / /mnt
Bill Powers
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