Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If i would like to clone a GNU system via archiving the filesystem > tree and extracting it later somewhere else, I would expect to also > have /home archived although it's a different partition than the root > filesystem, it's a passive translator sitting on /home. But I would > also expect that /dev/zero would be simply a passive translated file > on the destination system.
At least, for these examples, there is a simple difference: If you stat the two nodes, /home is a directory (S_ISDIR), while /dev/zero isn't. So simply recursing into all directories, and copying translator-settings for non-directories, would do what you want. /Niels
