cloning a drive [was: war story]

Wed Jul 27 14:14:02 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:57:33AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> I've always been uncomfortable using 'dd', because I always needed to
> reinstall lilo/grub afterwards.  If 'dd' copied faithfully, then I
> wouldn't have to reinstall bootloader.  Also, newer filesystem may have
> newer info or bugfix which older filesystem doesn't have.
> 
> How about 'mkfs' first, then 'cp -ax' ?

I think that breaks hardlinks.  rsync -aHx works though.

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