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From: Mauro Faccenda <faccenda@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:01:17 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706081301.17615.faccenda@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181318091.6030.19.camel@blackwidow.nbk>

On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> 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.

if you do tar in this way, is better to use "tar -pc ... | tar -px ..."

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-08 15:05 [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Aleksey Kunitskiy
2007-06-08 15:18 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-06-08 15:48   ` Alan McKinnon
2007-06-08 15:59     ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-08 16:21       ` Aleksey Kunitskiy
2007-06-08 16:43     ` Tim Allingham
2007-06-08 18:52       ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-09 18:25         ` Tim Allingham
2007-06-11  7:24         ` Mick
2007-06-11  8:58           ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-11 15:18             ` Randy Barlow
2007-06-11 14:54               ` Alan McKinnon
2007-06-11 15:00               ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-08 22:38     ` Dale
     [not found]   ` <200706081839.07324.alexey.kv@gmail.com>
2007-06-08 15:59     ` Mauro Faccenda
2007-06-08 15:54 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-08 16:01   ` Mauro Faccenda [this message]
2007-06-08 18:09     ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-06-08 16:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2007-06-09  8:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Vladimir Rusinov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-08 16:40 burlingk
2007-06-08 16:52 burlingk
2007-06-09  0:01 jamesc
2007-06-09  0:25 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-09  8:14   ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-09  0:18 jamesc
2007-06-09  0:43 jamesc

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