On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 04:31:30PM +0000, Mike Garfias wrote: > cp -avx * /mnt will miss any dotfiles/dirs in the root directory > cp -avx / /mnt will get everything on the root file system cp -avx * /mnt will copy not only the root filesystem, but also any other filesystems mounted in /, like /home, /proc, /var, etc.