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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:18:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706081718.54067.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com>

On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, 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 ?

nope.

cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that the ctime/mtime 
making uninstalling things a pain?

When I moved around on harddisks some years ago, I followed some instructions 
found on the suse-hp. And they used tar.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 15:27 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 [this message]
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
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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