03-29-2002
First of all, when it comes to learning commands, only use the man pages if you cant find the definition somewhere else in a unix book. I personally dont use man pages unless I have to. man pages certainly is not the easiest thing to understand. I never refer nobody to a man page unless I checked it out my self and found it to be very helpful. try spending time online looking for definitions if you cant get a hold of a book
anyway, about that cpio thing. did you type a small letter o and a big letter O or did you mistakenly type number 0???
these characters look quite similar so be careful.
get in the directory where your wanted files are in and try this command:
ls | cpio -o > (name of file you want to back it up in)
to extract the files, do: cpio -i (name of file you backed up your files in)
that should work, if it dont then use tar instead.
if my linux pc was connected to the internet, I'd be a lot helpful to you but I goto reboot to access my linux system.
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switch_root
SWITCH_ROOT(8) System Administration SWITCH_ROOT(8)
NAME
switch_root - switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree
SYNOPSIS
switch_root [-hV]
switch_root newroot init [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev and /sys to newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init process.
WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
show help and exit
-V, --version
show version number and exit
RETURN VALUE
switch_root returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
NOTES
switch_root will fail to function if newroot is not the root of a mount. If you want to switch root into a directory that does not meet
this requirement then you can first use a bind-mounting trick to turn any directory into a mount point:
mount --bind $DIR $DIR
SEE ALSO
mount(8) chroot(2) init(8) mkinitrd(8)
AUTHORS
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
AVAILABILITY
The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2009 SWITCH_ROOT(8)