On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:18 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > > > cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -) > > > > > > This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose messages > > > > This will also try to copy the contents of /newdisk to /newdisk/newdisk. > > Use the -l option to avoid descending into other filesystems. Or do > > True, I had forgotten that, as I had tried it that way on my first > attempt to clone a drive and I ran out of disk space because it wanted > to keep copying itsself. > > I should have opened my linux text file (my memory, I call it..) > > I usually mount the partitions I want to copy on /mnt/source and tar > that over to /mnt/destination > > > rsync -ax / /newdisk/ > > I might try that when I can afford another drive. Thanks for the free > fish... > but how to both of those handle in use files? as i recall rsync just gives errors instead of coping everything over when a file is in use. no?
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