John Summerfield wrote: >> So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora system >> to another partition? >> > > I, and others, have answered this many times over the years. Google is > your friend. > > dd can be a good start. I even use it for Windows. I don't think dd is appropriate in this case, as the source is in several partitions (/usr and /usr/share were separate partitions). > tar | tar # with appropriate options, works extremely well, and can even > do it across a network. I don't see any difference between tar, rsync and cp -a in this case. Why do you think tar would be better? How would the outcome differ from rsync? There would still be the same problem with /dev . Have you actually done this with tar since udev was introduced? If so, what directories did you exclude? I may say I have copied systems in the past using dd, tar and cp -a. But I haven't done it since udev was introduced. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
