Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> writes: > 5. Copy directories from the original drive to the new drive: > sudo rsync -av /bin /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /etc /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /lib /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /lib64 /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /opt /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /sbin /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /usr /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /var /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /home /mnt/backup
It seems to me there are that things that are not be handled by rsync -a, namely acls and extended attributes and SELINUX context too. At least. >From a little googling it seems GDM at least changes ACLs of some things so maybe that's the problem? Some use of getfacl might show differences in ACLs. I don't really understand the /tmp writing issue though. Anyways, I usually image when cloning drives. Either partition by partition with partclone or whole disk with dd, possibly doing file checksums before and checking after to make sure.
