On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,16.Aug.08, 07:07:39, Alex Samad wrote:
man rsync
-x, --one-file-system don’t cross filesystem boundaries
which means not to traverse any filesystem mounts, which is why it
doesn't do /prox /sys /dev,
I've got a working Debian system that I am about to
break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32
times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system
intact from the old one to the new one so dd is not an option
but I want to be sure to preserve all the special
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote:
I've got a working Debian system that I am about to
break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32
times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system
intact from the old one to the new one so dd is not
Shachar Or writes:
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote:
I've got a working Debian system that I am about to
break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32
times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system
intact from the old one to
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 06:41:06, Martin McCormick wrote:
[...]
The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When
I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is
that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one
and fdisk reported the same information except
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Martin McCormick wrote:
I've got a working Debian system that I am about to
break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32
times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system
intact from the old one to the new one
On Friday 15 August 2008 22:27, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 06:41:06, Martin McCormick wrote:
[...]
The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When
I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is
that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote:
I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files
actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev.
There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it
works.
AFAIU -x will prevent
On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote:
I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files
actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev.
There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote:
AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you
will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root
partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want
to clone is *not* running.
But
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:42:58PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote:
I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files
actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g.
On Sat,16.Aug.08, 07:07:39, Alex Samad wrote:
man rsync
-x, --one-file-system don’t cross filesystem boundaries
which means not to traverse any filesystem mounts, which is why it
doesn't do /prox /sys /dev, they are all mounted filesystems (it will
create the mount point though.
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AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you
will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root
partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want
to clone is *not* running.
But
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:05, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote:
AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you
will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root
partition, so I think it is better to omit -x
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:45, Tod Detre wrote:
AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you
will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root
partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want
to clone is *not* running.
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