Alan Mackenzie: ... > By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem, > such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in > it? I tried for some while with rsync and various combinations of > find's and xargs's, and in the end booted up into the rescue disc to do > it. I shouldn't have to do that.
rsync as other people have suggested. There is also cp -x dump/restore find -xdev etc. You can also do it by accessing the /dev/-file like dd if=source of=dest (cp works here also but dd is more the norm). /// When something is mounted on a mount point, the files below the mount point is hidden and the mounted filessystem will be available instead. Do you want to copy thoose hidden files also ? Regards, /Karl Hammar
