Re: best way to move files

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:24:29 -0500, Mark White <mwhite198823@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

pseudo filesystems. Try ...
rsync -axSX --exclude="lost+found" / destinationmountdir/

Hello Dave,
I tried the above, and it worked like a charm. Thanks!

Glad it helped.

I'd still have been curious to know what exactly went wrong with cpio...

As Stephane posted, it could be links being copied as seperate
files, or sparse files being expanded.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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