syncronizing file content into device content

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Howard
I have repeatable cases where a (very large) file contents are the intended content of a device (partition) of that exact size. The target device is already mostly of that content, but a few block have been changed. I want to restore the device contents back to what the file originally was. I'm

Re: syncronizing file content into device content

2007-03-07 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:29:36PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote: So, how can I get rsync to syncronize the _content_ of the device with the _content_ of the source file (or source device)? You can't without writing custom code -- for instance, adding an option to rsync to tell it to treat a block