On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote: > > AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you > > will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root > > partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want > > to clone is *not* running. > > But wait - doesn't it copy the directories themselves, aka the mount points? Don't you need those as well?
# mount /dev/sda2 /no-such-dir mount: mount point /no-such-dir does not exist Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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