On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Randy Beaudreault wrote:

> What is the best way to get / onto altroot, i. e., copy all the file
> and directories under root, minus altroot itself (and tmp and var),
> to altroot?  I tried cping these but that expanded the space taken by
> 25%.  What other commands are there to do this?

You probably created a few multiple copies of files that were previously
just hard links, but I am not sure why 25% more (maybe something got
copies twice into a sub-directory).

Try using cpio, pax, tar, rsync or other tools.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/