Timothy Murphy wrote: > So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy / > on a running system? yes. as mentioned by roberto, best done at 'level 1' as root. my apoligies for not mentioning such and '/proc'. i do tend to be 'terse' and forgetful of this being a 'tsl' [tech support list] where all points should be presented as if poster is a 'newbie' and for a sake of a 'newbie' who might be reading 'tsl' on a web page. in as much, using 'rsync' vs 'cp' gives advantage of an output of files copied which maybe redirected to a file. running 'rsync' a second time and redirecting output to a second file will show if any files where missed. seldom has this found any. i have used 'cp -a' as a test for backup copies followed by 'rsync' and found files that where not copied. another advantage of learning 'rsync', not all versions of 'cp' [5.97] have ability to skip directories as 'rsync' has. later. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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