Moving / mountpoint

[Tim]

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 "/"?

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