thanks for your reply. > i guess that was not what you meant..
mirroring an active root to your new drive fails miserably. why? because /dev is hidden. but why *must* it fail miserably? i did propose two solutions. the error occurs before, not after, the first INIT message, but i see now that it is userspace. so why not reassign to the appropriate userspace package? it is not a bad thing to make the boot process easier for users without harming anything else. *i* don't need this fixed, because i figured out the workaround (copying .static/dev as a special case after copying everything else). so as you can see this is not a support request. but it is appropriate to save the lives of the people on the street below *other people* from having computers fall on them. mirroring root to a backup partition with rsync is common whether or not it's a good idea to do so without lvm snapshots and the like (i don't use lvm because it's an extra layer and i don't know if it would unshadow /dev or not; i assume not). thanks. -- Webmaster: do you believe that people will (a) switch browsers to view your "best viewed with" page or (b) go to your competitor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
