Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
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>> 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?
When copying systems with rsync I tend to use --exclude to prevent
/proc, /sys, etc. that way the mount points don't even need to be the
same on the target location. For example system a could have everything
in one / partition where system b has separate /boot, /usr, etc. if you
do the --exclude syntax right it'll even create the base dir and just
exclude everything under it.
Regards,
Tod Detre
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