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From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie
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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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