Subject: Re: bug#14383: cp --one-file-system / will not copy whole root filesystem

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:10:35 +0200

Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:

> I suppose you could give the advice to ensure that all
> mounts in a tree should be unmounted to ensure that
> the base file system contents are copied.

The easiest way to uncover all over-mounted files of a filesystem is to
bind-mount it somewhere else.

Andreas.

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