-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Clive McBarton schreef: >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a >>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice. >> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"? > Added to the points others make the "don't cross filesystem > borders"-option (-x), which makes it useful for the task at hand. Then > again, now probably somebody will reply that cp can do that too...
Indeed. The option for cp even has exactly the same name as the option for rsync, namely "-x" or "--one-file-system". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvDqfcACgkQ+VSRxYk4409OSwCfQUbrWYLwoNQME/98sIdFSzNd Y+4AnRkojnSeHm77jVJzPi1g497+U+Yp =VbRe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bc3a9f7.6090...@web.de
