Kyle Bader writes: > > I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a > > bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not > > sarcastic, except to mock myself). > > Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
Yeah, that's what I usually do.n The fastest method probably is star, but the syntax is a little different. > tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - ) > tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host "( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )" ^ The ':' separating commands should be a ';'. Using the -C option would be a little easier, but your method also would work for star. This piping through ssh is quite cool, isn't it. If $old_dir is the root partition, I would bin-mount it first to somewhere else, so other directories mounted to it (especially/dev, /proc and /sys) are not copied: mount -o bind / /mnt old_dir=/mnt Wonko