On 08/21/2013 05:13 AM, Gregory Hosler wrote: > If a mounted partition is being copied, then the result (destination) is that > mounted partition. As boot time, it will need to be fsck. Any open files will > be in whatever state they were in when they were copied. Hence, all files > should be closed.
Copying mounted partitions with dd is dangerous. But if unmounting is really impossible (e.g. it is the partition containing the running system), a good trick is remounting it read-only. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
