On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:40:44 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: > . If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted > dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another > directory. That "copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts" (as if you > accessed it from a livecd),
Or you could simply use the -x option with rsync. But copying an in use filesystem is a bad idea, better to boot from a live CD and do the job there. If you want to minimise downtime, do the rsync on the working system then boot from the live CD and do it again. The second run should take seconds but will make sure your disk is consistent. Remember to use --delete on the second run. -- Neil Bothwick We shall shortly be landing. Please return your stewardess to the upright position.
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