>> Make sure here to copy with preserving hardlinks, use tar or rsync -aH for >> this. And, you can exclude some content like /dev/* (but not the directory >> /dev itself!). > > Use "star". This will preserve SELinux configurations, which neither > tar nor rsync do. The SELinux file contexts are stored in extended attributes, so you can use the --xattrs flag to rsync or tar to copy these across. Kal