Re: [SLUG] Drive Imaging

From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 11:43:34 EDT

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Ron KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> I run into problems trying to copy /dev

Because the files are character or block devices. You cannot simply
use programs like cp. Use tar, cpio and other backup utilities.

> and /proc

Which doesn't exist. It is just a filesystem-like interface to the
kernel.

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