On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote: > > I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files > > actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. > > There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it > works. 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. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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