What syntax to specify 'cp' to /dev/sda6 ?

[Michael Havens]

what your command is telling it to do is to copy /home to /home.cp which
doesn't exist...... bur remember... I am the village idiot unless someone
agrees with me.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> cp -rp /home /home/home.cp
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:41 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Since I have lots of space available on /dev/sda6,
>> I'd like to copy /home (which is on /dev/sda6 to
>> home.cp on that same sda6 drive.
>>
>> But when I tried (as root) to do this:
>>
>> # cp -rp /home /home.cp
>>
>> I got an "out of space" error message because the
>> copy was being made onto /dev/sda1.
>>
>> So, what syntax can I use to copy /home to /home.cp on /dev/sda6 ?
>>
>>
>> /dev/sda1              12G  5.7G  5.6G  51% /
>> tmpfs                 473M     0  473M   0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sda6             168G   23G  146G  14% /home
>>
>>
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