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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwoUM-0001Rz-I6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:07:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5906GaP016255; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:06:16 GMT Received: from smapp05.siteprotect.com (smapp05.siteprotect.com [64.41.126.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5901rUc011508 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:01:53 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smapp05.siteprotect.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8676613CEA for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 19:01:46 -0500 (CDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 From: "jamesc@reliant-data.com" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition X-Origin: 70.237.224.190 Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:01:46 -0500 Message-Id: <55995.1181347306@reliant-data.com> X-Mailer: AtMail 6.0 - 70.237.224.190 - jamesc@reliant-data.com X-Archives-Salt: eac54d7a-d16a-42e0-8a7d-6051b2df2df4 X-Archives-Hash: 73e358d9e906ccadd6ca4a3bc7052523 On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale sent: >This is something I have done several times. This is how I do it.=20 >Boot the Gentoo CD or some other live CD, Knoppix should work. After >you get booted up, mount the partitions, old and new, then use this >command: cp -av /path/to/old /path/to/new and sit back and watch it >all scroll by. It may take a good while depending on how much stuff >you have to copy. > > > >I'm not saying that someone else doesn't have a better idea. I have >seen where people tar the stuff then untar it to the new drive. To me, >it is a useless step. What I use has worked for me every time and I >have done it quite a bit. Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where= I do: $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./ and then extract to the new directory. I do this out of habit mostly and, = yes, it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere for whatever= reason... --James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list