From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NyWVF-00073e-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:33:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55C1CE089D; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18832E089D for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-96-247-205-104.clppva.fios.verizon.net [96.247.205.104]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id o34KWPvl032597 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:32:27 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o34J9259010008 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:09:05 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the system from one disk to another In-reply-to: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> References: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> Comments: In-reply-to meino.cramer@gmx.de message dated "Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:05:23 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: <10006.1270408142@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 2f87b6c1-6e0a-4f42-af04-3ac65048ada5 X-Archives-Hash: 3c99292a028d2e0cc1a3f7a4da290f34 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I have to move my whole system from one disk to another > bigger one. > > I think of doing as follows: > Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example). > Mount small disk read-only > Mount bigger disk read-write > > cd into mountpoint of the first one > cp -a . ../ > > Seems to me slow but correct? Or? > > (I have to set the bootable flag of the correct partion > additionally...) > > I dont want to have a booting system afterwards, which "runs" for -- > say -- three month and suddenly hit a obscure bug due to my > copy-commands, which only did it to 99.87% correct... ;) > > I would like to preserve as much as possible of the file/directoy > times ,,, > > Or does a mystical command with s-tar a better job faster? > > Thank you very much in adance for any help! I like rsync and be sure to say --numeric-ids or whatever to retain the same userids for permissions, but otherwise you are good to go. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com