On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 02:03 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > Moreover, "cp -a" will copy the data from all mounted filesystems > > under the starting point, so if you've mounted all original > > filesystems (the rescue CD would offer to do that), you'd potentially > > be copying more than just the original partition. The dd method does > > not have this issue. > > Wouldn't you also potentially strike the problem of inappropriately > copying /proc/ or /dev/ when using cp, if you just copied "/" to "/"? Potentially yes, but since this would be done in rescue mode with /proc and /dev not mounted under /mnt/sysimage, it would be OK. Fedora uses udev too, so /dev is probably empty anyway. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
