[2nd try: Seems that my outgoing email is not reaching fedora-list...] I am having a hard time simply trying to copy my root partition to a new drive and somehow tar is not doing what I expected. Can someone advise me how to do it correctly? I tried: 1) mkdir /mnt/new 2) mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt/new 3) cd /mnt/new 4) (cd /; tar --one-file-system --xattrs -cf - .) | tar --one-file-system --xattrs -tvf -) [result: All mounted filesystems are copied over] Drat! The only other possibility that comes to my mind is to mount the root drive to /mnt/root read-only. mount the new drive to /mnt/new, and then tar-copy but this may have consequences with the currently mounted root filesystem? Please advise. Thanks! Dan
