rsync clone - ubuntu failure

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Monday 02 July 2007, dave selby wrote:
> On 02/07/07, migmog <migmog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > my /etc/fstab had uuid's instead of the more traditional /dev/hdaX
> > style drive names. Could this be your problem?
>
> I see where you are going but the clone was generated by rsync running
> on a knoppix live CD with the OS hdd mounted RO. The clone should be
> identical in all respects - and to the casual rummageing around it is
> identical.

rsync does nothing of the sort.  Identical copies can be made using dd, but 
not from large drives to smaller ones.
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