14 Sep
2010
14 Sep
'10
2:58 p.m.
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
Thanks for the suggestion. Could you offer a precise command for copying the system from / to /mnt/hd , say? Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example?
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