From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:48:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011191948.56340.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aal59uko.fsf@ist.utl.pt>
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:55 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nuno J.
Silva did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010,
> > James did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T
> >> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats.
>
> [...]
>
> > Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb
>
> Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol'
> tar - after lots of research, it was the only way I found to be sure
> hard links would still be linked in the new filesystem.
>
> IIRC, rsync does not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken?
man rsync;
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-19 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 21:59 [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels James
2010-11-17 22:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 23:47 ` Mick
2010-11-19 13:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-11-19 15:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-20 2:34 ` James
2010-11-19 15:55 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-11-19 16:39 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-11-19 17:48 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-11-17 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2010-11-18 8:48 ` Andrea Conti
2010-11-18 11:42 ` Andrea Conti
2010-11-18 4:20 ` Dale
2010-11-18 17:23 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-11-18 20:14 ` Dale
2010-11-18 22:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-18 23:20 ` Dale
2010-11-19 1:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2010-11-19 9:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 10:49 ` Marius Vaitiekunas
2010-11-19 12:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 14:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 15:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 23:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 10:52 ` Mick
2010-11-19 14:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 15:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-11-23 4:06 ` Walter Dnes
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