From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NjTP2-0005kP-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:12:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D6F7E0B8F for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f199.google.com (mail-px0-f199.google.com [209.85.216.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8A6E064E for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi37 with SMTP id 37so1264178pxi.9 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:49:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=WhXTFaZ/ib2tWfTkqfAOY4Sgfpufpw5ezsITPSM9etE=; b=wNQdY44wIkMAQsCZ+RQN7vHfLXmoph8BvagElv1eUs84gBKht5xi4/HGfc3D69O5aw +Oj2BfCdZ9myd+s3NVTHMCJuaOacxmNwOIazJWgLLsKK4AagjQAS9EDnLrZ+GwzG1enH rpOEIaLTkAY1AyX2RzyevXwMjDBuPZes49AYQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=NkPX+UrawQTh+QCbpEeOniDT01grRgH9976az8OaZj1uRiTmC3q2qQaMITVxDj6Kq9 0CCpI+C/5js6KVSF5jGUBp1QXQd5YOIjkHKVNioQWmFFk26uI4btZJbsmpoDjPRsXteL Xvys0NvgzlJWthTKpWRwdgsDNqyu8fNGst268= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.61.39 with SMTP id j39mr1630526wfa.299.1266824943418; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:49:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87hbpdotge.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87hbpdotge.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:49:03 +0900 Message-ID: <3ac129341002212349j4eef1229p3bc266d29ef054ca@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d415c858-9b8a-4e82-b357-b75ac1f599dd X-Archives-Hash: e64e861cdf588f57a88171a17a9c505c On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk > to a newly created one. you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in /proc and /dev you don't want. This could avoid any problems of your rsync options. Then in a chroot reinstall grub on the partition. I never tried this, but to my mind it should work, and it's faster than rsync. ~daid