[svlug] ATA to SATA

[Scott Hess]

On Feb 17, 2008 6:57 PM, Debian Intermediate <jj1234ff at lycos.com> wrote:
> Got it formated and started the copy
> but keep running into problems in /proc and
> /sys where there are hundreds of special files that are write only.

You probably don't want to copy over /proc, /sys, or /dev.  /proc and
/sys are virtual filesystems which are generated on-the-fly.  /dev may
also be, or may not, depending on config, but is probably not that
useful to copy regardless.

The command 'df -a' shows me all of these instances on an Ubuntu
system, and seems more reliable than looking at /etc/fstab (which
shows the proc filesystem, but not /sys and udev and others).

-scott