From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCjxA-0002TG-Io for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5F29E07FD; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A73E07FD for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D13ED41C97B for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:39 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly Message-ID: <20081217000739.5f40c8f7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49483E77.7030501@gmail.com> References: <492FD2A2.5080301@gmail.com> <200811281346.01928.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200811291041.34950.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <493E1536.3060708@gmail.com> <49405CF1.6070905@gmail.com> <49475FF2.3050205@gmail.com> <1229417289.23881.11.camel@maya.local> <4947719C.3080308@gmail.com> <1229419920.23881.52.camel@maya.local> <20081216120350.570318be@krikkit> <49481EE4.5060406@gmail.com> <20081216215850.059055c5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <49483E77.7030501@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1cvs78 (GTK+ 2.14.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/VSywJA1h5Ft99s05usInQo4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 15929ecb-8666-4340-9986-a300d66caae8 X-Archives-Hash: a34c052ec165f4b67fbd9f16edf113bc --Sig_/VSywJA1h5Ft99s05usInQo4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also > >> read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc > >> etc.=20 > > That's what the -x is for. > Thanks for the info. As you may can tell, I have never used rsync > before. :/ Your portage tree must be very outdated by now :P > Then again, since I will be booted from the CD, shouldn't > they be empty anyway? Except maybe for /dev/null and /dev/console I > guess? Yes, and that is a better way of doing it as you will copy the two files in the underlying /dev. -x tells rsync to not cross filesystem boundaries, so it will make no difference if you are working from a live CD. --=20 Neil Bothwick Exercise daily. Eat wisely. Die anyway. --Sig_/VSywJA1h5Ft99s05usInQo4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklIQtIACgkQum4al0N1GQP4YgCeLXnECMnWLlQz/U1vO9asFUrB e7EAn0jnCCLcQXRolqLgQec1N9bUzTP+ =twPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VSywJA1h5Ft99s05usInQo4--