On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Tinker <t1...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > Say you have an OpenBSD installation (with /dev and all) mounted on > /mnt , and you'd like to clone it to /mnt2 , which is a partition > of different size, so dd is not an option. > > For simplicity of the example both the source and destination OS > installations are on single ffs partitions, e.g. /mnt hosts /dev/sd1a > which is sd1's only partition, and /mnt2 hosts /dev/sd2a which is sd2's > only partition. > > Can you make cp or some other recursive copying tool properly replicate > device files, links, file privileges and attributes, user and group > ownership, and maybe even creation and modification times, so the > copying together will make /mnt2 a complete and bootable replica of > /mnt ? >
Ignoring the "bootable" qualifier which is more about disklabel and installboot: cd /mnt && pax -rwpe . /mnt2 Philip Guenther (Replies that are mangled by protonmail will be ignored.)
