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From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:33:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43178FD3.9050401@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af86c60b05090116165fd89394@mail.gmail.com>

Ben Blount schreef:
> MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
> grub-install just to be sure.
> 
> You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
>  cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
> (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
> 
> Ben Blount
> 

Wouldn't rsync -a be better for this, or would cp -R preserve ownership
and permissions as well?

Holly
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06   ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:16     ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32       ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:33       ` Holly Bostick [this message]
2005-09-02 10:09         ` Harald Arnesen
2005-09-01 23:35     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02  0:05       ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02  1:31         ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07  1:08           ` waltdnes
2005-09-07 15:49             ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13               ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53                 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26                   ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02  6:23     ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer

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