Moving / mountpoint

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 02:03 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > Moreover, "cp -a" will copy the data from all mounted filesystems
> > under the starting point, so if you've mounted all original
> > filesystems (the rescue CD would offer to do that), you'd potentially
> > be copying more than just the original partition. The dd method does
> > not have this issue.
> 
> Wouldn't you also potentially strike the problem of inappropriately
> copying /proc/ or /dev/ when using cp, if you just copied "/" to "/"?

Potentially yes, but since this would be done in rescue mode with /proc
and /dev not mounted under /mnt/sysimage, it would be OK. Fedora uses
udev too, so /dev is probably empty anyway.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>