From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hwgt8-0005Dw-5B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:00:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l58FwvmI004048; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:58:57 GMT Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l58FsrUK032214 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:54:54 GMT Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC816FD for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:54:52 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: v+U0hDJ5//Gm+RfRJhwh3U0HmTBlK80AP7KOmyUz5jnX 1181318092 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7D61D00B for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> References: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:54:51 +0000 Message-Id: <1181318091.6030.19.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b96b1567-fe8d-47e1-93ad-24c17ccb90fd X-Archives-Hash: 50f7de838aed957588e0274c12f62339 On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' for that purpose. But what I usually do is 'tar -c ... | tar -x ...'. I don't really know if it's better or not than using 'cp'. I just do it out of habit. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list