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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote:

> > > # (cd /dead_filesystem; tar cf - . ) | (cd /new_filesystem; tar xvf -)
> > 
> > 	Is there a way to copy /dev to another drive since I've tried 
> > before and it doesn't appear to be working.
> 
> Yes.  You can use it with the previous method, or you can use cpio, or pax,
> too:
> cpio:
> cd /dev ; find . -depth -print | cpio -o | ( cd /newdev ; cpio -id )
> or another way of it:
> cd /dev ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pd /newdev
> 
> pax:
> cd /dev ; find . -depth -print | pax -w | ( cd /newdev ; pax -r )
> or:
> cd /dev ; find . -depth -print | pax -rw /newdev
> 
> With pax, you have more versions, too.  (As I know, cpio, dump, - and if you
> have - pax  can save device files, but original tar not.  Of course, FB uses
> GNU-tar, which hase this nice feature.)

	Hmmm, okay... What is FB?

Richard