Harold Sinclair wrote:
> It makes sense that the source partition should be mounted RO- I guess I
> was more curious about the target partition being unmounted. If it's
> unmounted you can do a dd. But if you tar, (like in the bash script), it
> has to be mounted, doesn't it? (dd is at the device level, tar is not?
> Am I right?)
Yes, if you use tar (or `cp -a'), the destination needs to be mounted
read-write. Also, it shouldn't matter if the source is mounted
read-write.
> On another note, I got all new messages on this(ese) lists today as
> single instances, while your replies (from Glynn Clements and Roger)
> both had duplicates! Not a problem for me, but what's causing this?
Are you subscribed to both linux-admin and linux-config? The message
that started this thread was posted to both, and replies have been
CC:'d to both lists.
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