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 1Nyz6o-0002gr-EN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:05:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C27CE0477 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (mail-gx0-f216.google.com [209.85.217.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980E4E08F7 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 02:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so3287463gxk.9 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:51:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zkRCfAk+dGM0gyVgOah1AdUoCj6buobvqCGNDZ09tR8=; b=fDeh/fLwBYjOUekKFsbyoq45+yKRF7mczBH7mBt2MqiE6egXYF6MSfMtrJS+s0d6LX ZZn5WH9oaowczG7CoftHvKsdLvp06V5YHSSLbSmVtWrplu25qiYEw0Qygf290xEPY64C DXaiXDJxezlK0Kqu+1jzek3MMMqdftT0QQleE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GP2OAjhahxCjnLueHoc3Xc758p8FnLrhsXwNB4fQgBwK4U/U4lMv2B5lyEw0bYHNay Emw+EppG6Vs2i9qniyWAtFBZtDaAmqpLvS3TZtchFrklyZvWX1fc698OyGDvLXI7LKDS hwjeb/rpTUxeGmKtzyHFcwlT66oq+daOihTmY= Received: by 10.101.130.3 with SMTP id h3mr14103399ann.118.1270522264796; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-89-81.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.89.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm130479ywh.1.2010.04.05.19.51.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BBAA195.7030105@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:51:01 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100404 Gentoo/2.0.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the system from one disk to another References: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 06020d51-170d-4c9c-bb00-6536417a4ffc X-Archives-Hash: 0d75800def57447e3c0b6519ba81fe73 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I have to move my whole system from one disk to another > bigger one. > > I think of doing as follows: > Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example). > Mount small disk read-only > Mount bigger disk read-write > > cd into mountpoint of the first one > cp -a . ../ > > Seems to me slow but correct? Or? > > (I have to set the bootable flag of the correct partion > additionally...) > > I dont want to have a booting system afterwards, which "runs" for -- > say -- three month and suddenly hit a obscure bug due to my > copy-commands, which only did it to 99.87% correct... ;) > > I would like to preserve as much as possible of the file/directoy > times ,,, > > Or does a mystical command with s-tar a better job faster? > > Thank you very much in adance for any help! > > Best regards, > mcc > The way you plan to do this is almost exactly what I have done several times in the past. I usually add the -v option so that I can tell about where the copy process is. This is not a fast way according to some. I have never compared this with using rsync, tar, star and all the rest. The biggest thing, make sure whatever you boot will access your drives with DMA and all the other goodies turned on and fully functioning. When the copy process is done, install grub as well unless you plan to still use the old drive and do some editing on the fly. Dale :-) :-)