Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:05, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote:
> > > AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you
> > > will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root
> > > partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want
> > > to clone is *not* running.
> >
> > But wait - doesn't it copy the directories themselves, aka the mount
> > points?
>
> Don't you need those as well?
Yes, those are needed. I didn't mean that they're not needed. I meant that I'm
not sure that they get excluded; I think they may get copied with rsync -x.
>
> # mount /dev/sda2 /no-such-dir
> mount: mount point /no-such-dir does not exist
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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