RE: [SLE] Is this possible?

The Friday 2005-04-29 at 12:35 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:

If I copy every high-level directory to the 2nd drive, do I then have my entire system (minus the MBR)?

If you do a recursive copy, yes.

Are there any components on the disk that aren't contained in those directories?

Hidden files, depending on the command used. I'm lazy, I use 'mc' for those copies.

I. e., if I did that copy, re-installed a bare bones Linux system, then copied all of those directories back, would I be back to where I was to start with?

Yes. If there are no errors, yes.

Can you copy those directories back to the system you are currently booted into?

Eummm... maybe not. I would use a rescue system. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson