jbk wrote: > I was cloning a fedora31 system to another partition using rsync using the > -x option to restrict decent to one file system, at least that was what I > thought, but the contents below the mount point were copied anyway. > > rsync -ax bin boot data (<- mounted to separate partition) ... <destination> > > So what am I not understanding?
Did it look like this? /dev/sdd1 on / type blah blah /dev/sdd2 on /data type blah blah or like this? /dev/sdd1 on / type blah blah /dev/sdd3 on /data/thingy type blah blah rsync -x includes anything you explicitly mention (so, all subdirectories of the top situation) and excludes filesystems mounted underneath what you mention (so, not /data/thingy in the bottom situation). -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
