<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>That one is from the days of bricking windows boxes for fun. It's been a few years, but I recall rsync -avz would even copy partition info if it was called like </div><div><br></div><div>rsync -avz /dev/sda /dev/sdb</div><div><br></div><div>Where sda contained sda(1,2) and sdb did have any partitions. Probably not the purest solution, for block-by-block copying, but since it's rsync you can stop and start, call it again later and all sorts of near stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't screw up the boot up :-) If this partition is the boot partition, the bootmgr may want you to set the boot flag. fdisk can do that, rsync won't. <br><br>Let us know if it works or fails.<br><br><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">-j</span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right to Life of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Director of Information Services<br><a href="tel:616.446.6492" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">616.446.6492</a> / <a href="mailto:jdenick@rtl.org">jdenick@rtl.org</a></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><br>On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:02 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Justin Denick wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>rsync -av /dev/old /dev/new</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>That's from memory, but I wanted to add -z too, so best to rtm</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-j</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>I would not expect rsync to handle file system issues, .. but it's worth a</span><br><span>try.</span><br><span></span><br><span> Thanks!</span><br><span></span><br><span> Lee</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>grlug mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug">http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>