Not sure it's possible with rsync. You might want to check out dd. http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/03/13/copying-block-devices-between-machines/
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:50, Seth Van Oort <[email protected]> wrote: > First, sorry for the delay. > > I am trying to copy to block devices, ie either the whole device or > just a partition. > > On Jul 7, 2:12 pm, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > > What device are you trying to write to? > > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:43, Seth Van Oort <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I'm wondering if there's some special combination of options I > > > have to use to copy from a file to a device. I have had no problem > > > copy from a device to a file with the '--copy-devices' option, > > > however, when I try to copy from the file back to the device, it > > > always overwrites my device node with a regular file. Any ideas? > > > > > Thanks, > > > Seth > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > Group. > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit our group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > References can be found at:http://goo.gl/anqri > > > Please remember to abide by our list rules ( > http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > > >http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
