How to copy a Fedora system?

Fri Apr 14 02:39:58 UTC 2006

On Friday, April 07, 2006 11:12 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy 
<tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora system
> to another partition?

Assuming ext2 or ext3, use dump and restore in a pipeline. cd to the 
restore point, dump the raw source device, and pipe that to restore which 
will drop it into the current directory (ie. the destination disk).

Something like this (untested):

cd /mnt/newdisk
dump 0f /dev/sda1 | restore xf -