[techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jeff Dike wrote:

> > ---8<--- snip --- 
> > root at wombat:/tmp> ls -l /dev/mem
> > crw-r-----   1 root    kmem       1,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/mem
> > root at wombat:/tmp> cp -a /dev/mem . 
> > root at wombat:/tmp> ls -l mem
> > crw-r-----   1 root     kmem       1,   1 May  5  1998 mem 
> 
> Mea culpa.  I actually did try it, but only after I sent that mail.  And I 
> actually didn't like the results.  My machine hung.  I took that as evidence 
> that something other than a mknod was happening.

What switches where you using for cp? It _only_ works with '-a' all others
('-dpf' for example) copy "byte by byte" and thus fill your disk :-).

Nils
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