17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
11:52 p.m.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
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.
Thanks for all the responses.
Further to my query, I'm wondering if one can safely copy partitions (in particular the root partition / ) while the system is running.
The reason that I ask is that I'm slightly afraid the machine will not re-boot into single-user mode with the present OS on the sick disk.
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