On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Can anyone advise me whether rsync can sync devices as opposed to > filesystems. > > I have a set of disk partitions that contain a foreign file system not > listed in fdisk and I would like to sync them so I need to do something > like: > rsync /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 > where both hda1 and hdc1 will be foreign filesystems. > > Is this possible?
Just a hunch, I think it would work. If I had a spare partition I'd try it now. > > Alternatively would dd do it for me? > dd will definitely work (well it will serve as a backup, don't know about actually using the copy on an alternate partition though). -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
