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 1Hwh6v-0005ec-VL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:14:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l58GCD2w023617; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:12:13 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l58G1YVu008014 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:01:34 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Jun 2007 16:01:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO gmx.net) [201.6.156.35] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 08 Jun 2007 18:01:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #12661850 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18TkqUgoBYTnug+AAAnDHbTm0MuvmDiZzot3cfK1Z OXC/Y/hrYmlxwJ From: Mauro Faccenda To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:01:17 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Albert Hopkins References: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> <1181318091.6030.19.camel@blackwidow.nbk> In-Reply-To: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706081301.17615.faccenda@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 6a6d5d68-9ab0-42f4-baf0-da3245ffc890 X-Archives-Hash: d9c7ccc312c8e389030d25d0b3ebeecd 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 ..." []'s .m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list