On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Timothy A. Musson wrote:
> Oops, I just realized that one of my responses only went to Eric. This is
> what I sent:
> 
> Well, I guess my real question was on how exactly to do the copy. Since
> posting, I've tried mounting the two files and doing "cp -dpR /<src>/*
> /<dst>", which seems to work. I just want to make sure that devices, sym
> links, and anything else I don't know about will be copied correctly (which

For this, you may want to use pax:
cd /src
pax -rw . /dst

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