Clive McBarton schreef: > 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"? Added to the points others make the "don't cross filesystem borders"-option (-x), which makes it useful for the task at hand. Then again, now probably somebody will reply that cp can do that too... Sjoerd
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