Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Clive McBarton schreef:
> 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".
That indeed makes sense, but I was to lazy to look in the manpages. I 
guess I am a rsync fanboy ;)

Sjoerd

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