> This may not be best, but it works for me:
>
> say other partition is on mount,
>
> cp -a / /mnt
>
> you may want to do it at one level further down.
> ie cp -a /bin /mnt
>
>
> Does anyone else have a better way, I am sure that this is hardly
> optimal, however...
>
How 'bout:
(cd /;tar clf - .) | (cd /mnt;tar xfp -)
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