[kwlug-disc] Followup to transplanting linux system

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 9:37 PM Erik Schnetter <schnetter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 9:18 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> >
> > rsync worked nice with -avEHAX flags. But you have to exclude stuff from
> > rsync. Ubuntu has tons of mounted systems, and those mount points should
> > be excluded from rsync.
>
> rsync -x ?
>

That works.

I have done cp -ax in the past to copy disks, and it works.

Rsync is better since it does checksumming on the files that are copied,
guaranteeing
that they are copied right (not that this is a problem one commonly
encounters).

You need to massage your /etc/fstab afterwards, as you have found out.
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