Does rsync -D preserve the root partition uuid in fstab?
by RTD777 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HHKD)
I have a few partitions. One is for my main OS installation, and a second is set aside as the destination for a backup of the main OS. I have a secondary OS set aside for maintenance purposes, with both of the aforementioned partitions mounted as /source and /dest respectively.
After a successful run of sudo rsync -av --del /source /dest I noticed that the fstab file in the copy has a different uuid for the root partition than the original, but, why?
Does it have anything to do with the -a argument being equivalent to -rlptgoD, with -D being --devices --specials?
I need to be sure I'm doing what I intend to do for this copy operation. Thanks in advance.
After a successful run of sudo rsync -av --del /source /dest I noticed that the fstab file in the copy has a different uuid for the root partition than the original, but, why?
Does it have anything to do with the -a argument being equivalent to -rlptgoD, with -D being --devices --specials?
I need to be sure I'm doing what I intend to do for this copy operation. Thanks in advance.