Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

[karl@aspodata.se]

Alan Mackenzie:
...
> By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem,
> such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in
> it?  I tried for some while with rsync and various combinations of
> find's and xargs's, and in the end booted up into the rescue disc to do
> it.  I shouldn't have to do that.

rsync as other people have suggested.
There is also
 cp -x
 dump/restore
 find -xdev
etc.

You can also do it by accessing the /dev/-file like
dd if=source of=dest (cp works here also but dd is more the norm).

///

When something is mounted on a mount point, the files below the
mount point is hidden and the mounted filessystem will be available
instead. Do you want to copy thoose hidden files also ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar