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Using cp - am I doing something stupid?

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Alex Harford (alexh@dowco.com)
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:53:13 -0700

Ok, this is going to sound very stupid, but am I doing this correctly?

I want to copy my / partition to another one. I am doing this by typing
'cp -ax / /backup'. /home is mounted on a separate partition, so it
shouldn't get copied. But when I try this, it copies the /home
directory, it even started to copy /proc ?!

At this point I stopped it, re-read the cp manpage, but I can't
understand why it is doing this.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Alex 

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