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Re: Upgrading Hard Drives



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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