On 08/25/2014 02:38 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So what is the magic command with all the directories like /dev/ and > /proc/ that you do not want to try and include their contents, but you > still need the directory tree? > > I want to move a rootfs from one HD to another, and this seems to be > the most straightforward way. > dd if=/dev/<old_root> of=/dev/<new_root> maybe followed by resize2fs
/dev and /proc are not the issue. They are normally mounted as a separate fs and most of the tools have an option for restricting to one file system: tar: --one-file-system cp: -x, --one-file-system rsync: -x, --one-file-system But there are also hardlinks, sockets, selinux properties, etc to consider. I think these can all be handled with special options to the tools, but normally I don't bother and just dd the whole partition. Jacco _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
