Sorry, everyone, I am a newbie. I have got the answer: I did not set the owner of the destination as root.
My method is Mike Rubel's that is also mentioned in Dirvish site. It works much the same. As such I believe it will give the same result.
The source is ext2, the destination is also ext2. Perhaps this is related to group and owner of destination folder? How should I get around this?
/dev/sda1 ... ext2 /dev/sda2 ... linux-swap My code rsync the "/" folder. Perhaps that includes the sda2 ?
Linpus, based on Fedora 8.
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