Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net> wrote:
> P.T. Breuer wrote:
> rsync is great for syncing two hosts... but not really for cloning
> and falls into the same boot block issue as mentioned. Not sure

You can't deal with a boot block by "cloning": you don't know what the
target device is or where in the bios boot order it is or even what boot
loader is being used, in order to modify its configuration (and you
don't know where its configuration IS). The boot block may not be
located anywhere near either source or target, even! The best that you
can do is deal with the most common cases.

> what/how rsync deals with all of the special devices.

Perfectly.

Peter