rsync clone - ubuntu failure

[Cameron Hutchison]

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.

That only makes the files identical. The filesystem itself contains the
UUID and that is not copied by rsync, so they will be different. The
UUID was generated when you ran mkfs on the partition on the new drive.