I've had very good success with cp -ax. The x makes it "Skip
subdirectories that are on different filesystems from the one that the
copy started on", so you have to create the /proc mount point on the
new system. (proc is a virtual file system, provided by the kernel,
so you don't have to worry about the contents of it.)
I wouldn't dare to assert that cp is the "*best*" method. It is
pretty much a religious matter! There are a number of other
satisfactory methods, some using find and tar, that are advocated
forcefully by others.
Bob
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo.
> I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a
> different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian.
>
> I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of using tar.
> However, could someone point me in the direction (details would be nice
> too:-) of the *best* technique to do this? Thanks in advance.
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