Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?
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Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> 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...
Indeed. The option for cp even has exactly the same name as the option
for rsync, namely "-x" or "--one-file-system".
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