Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

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Subject: Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?
From: Clive McBarton <clivemcbarton@web.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:11:05 +0200
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Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
>  rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.

What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?

I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you can
easily spot aborted transfers by the fact that the original device is
not empty afterwards.
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