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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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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