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 wrote: > cp -rp /home /home/home.cp > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:41 PM, 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 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >