From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GBG1y-0003Hk-GO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:17:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7AJBfsn022431; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:11:41 GMT Received: from mxo2.broadbandsupport.net (mxo2.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7AJ7KPq022876 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:07:21 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo2.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9330D800D for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:07:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44DB83E5.5020801@vista-express.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:07:17 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060728 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD References: <342e1090608101101s2f11f638m947623a1b2b80bcd@mail.gmail.com> <200608102021.31376.ce@christeck.de> <342e1090608101156k788f8257gfb167a09d22269b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <342e1090608101156k788f8257gfb167a09d22269b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 671b2e72-79b7-4699-8dad-f50afbe1a211 X-Archives-Hash: fb185e4d76701cf7de973ebba4e81a19 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert wrote: >> >> > Any info needed, please let me know. >> >> * Boot from a live-CD >> * mount old and new drive partitions >> * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied >> * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) >> * Drink coffee :) >> >> Worked for me more than once. >> > > Thanks Cristopher. I'll give it a try tomorrow morning. > I always boot from the CD, mount both drives as above then do a cp -av /old/stuff/ new/stuff and it works. No tarring and such then. Still get to drink a cup of coffee though. O_O Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list