Copy EVERYTHING

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Dec2006 10:18, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
| Then I'll mount the old partitions and run the following command I which 
| got from an earlier email
| http://pj.freefaculty.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view.pl/Linuxtips/CopyEntireFilesystemsExactly
| 
| > cd /oldpart;  find . -xdev | cpio -padm /newpart
| 
| Is it really as easy as that to copy everything?

Yes. Rsync will do it too, and variations on the above command using tar
instead of cpio.  But anything that copies every file and directory and
preserves all the ownerships and permissions will do.
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