Scott Raun wrote: > [...] > > I don't have anything beyond basic rwxrwxrwx permissions, but I do > have those. It doesn't look like cpio will preserve them? > > I haven't had to deal with this on a Linux box before - will I need to > deal with any open files issues? Per ps -ae, I've got the following > processes running at the moment: > > acpid dovecot init kthreadd rpc.mountd > afpd dovecot-auth kacpid lockd rpc.statd > aio/0 emacs kacpi_notify mailmanctl rsyslogd > apache2 events/0 kblockd/0 migration/0 smbd > ata/0 exim4 kgameportd mutt sort > ata_aux famd khelper nfsd sshd > atalkd getty khubd nfsd4 su > bash hald kjournald nmbd udevd > CMD hald-addon-acpi kondemand/0 papd uniq > column hald-addon-inpu kpsmoused pdflush watchdog/0 > cron hald-addon-stor kseriod portmap winbindd > cupsd hald-runner ksoftirqd/0 ps > cut imap-login ksuspend_usbd python > dbus-daemon inetd kswapd0 rpciod/0 > > Some I know I don't have to worry about - emacs, sort, uniq, ps, cut, > and column are all due to this e-mail message. I should be able to get > rid of most of the k* processes by changing to a lower run-level - I > never use X on this box anyway. The rest? I know I can manually shut a > bunch of them down (apache2, the imap stuff, probably cups, exim, > samba). You shouldn't need to worry much about open files, however you don't want to copy over all the stuff in /proc, /sys, /dev, or any mounted tmpfs filesystems (on my machine that includes /var/run and /var/lock). Just make sure that there are empty directories there to serve as mount points for proc, sysfs, udev, etc. -Steve