[Wylug-help] copy /dev

[Stephen Patterson]

On 17 Feb 07, Don Magee (don at leedsweb.dyndns.org) wrote:
> I feel sure that there is a simple answer to this question but I haven't 
> found it yet. I am making a copy of a boot disk to put on a different 
> machine. I've used dd in the past and it all works fine. But this time 
> the partition size is different so I am using cp. But how do you make an 
> exact copy of /dev. There doesn't seem to be a cp option or a specific 
> program to do the job.

With the right options, rsync can do it

rsync -av -x --delete /dev/* /mnt/dev

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