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    > I'd like to move my existing linux system to another partition -- I've got a 
    > disk going bad.
    >
    > I've done "cp -rpPd" on all directoried except /proc, /dev, and /home/ftp/dev
    >
    > What should I do for these directories? No "cp" options seem feasable.

    For similar purposes I use tar.
    It seems you should run tar to create archive from /
    and extract on destination file system with preserving
    permissions.

    /proc should be skipped.
    dev entryes will be created by tar correctly.

    You may say from / being root as following:

    tar cf - . --exclude proc --exclude mnt | tar xpf - -C mnt

    where mnt is a directory on which your new drive is mounted.

    Andrey V.
    Savochkin


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