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LiSt Open Files is a useful and powerful tool that will show you opened files. In Unix everything is a file: pipes are files, IP sockets are files, unix sockets are files, directories are files, devices are files, inodes are files...
Despite the best planning, it eventually happens. You start to run out of space on your linux system. While there are many different ways to copy files from one hard drive to another, some work better than others when transferring the full / directory. Below I will outline a method I have used about 50 times to transfer full systems and partitions from one machine to another.