[gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Richard Watson]

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete contents
of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the
correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Jakub Krajcovic]

Well, if not sure about the syntax, why don't you just use midnight 
commander?

Although i do not quite understand what you are saying: (copy from 
/dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2) -> do you mean,: "copy from /dev/hdb1 that is 
mounted on /mountpoint1 to /dev/hda2 that is mounted on mountpoint 
/mountpoint2"?

If that is the case, then a simple: cp -R /boot /new-boot-location
should do it.


s pozdravom
jakub krajcovic


On júl 27, 2005, at 14:53, Richard Watson wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete 
> contents
> of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the
> correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc.
>
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RE: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Dave Nebinger]

> Although i do not quite understand what you are saying: (copy from
> /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2) -> do you mean,: "copy from /dev/hdb1 that is
> mounted on /mountpoint1 to /dev/hda2 that is mounted on mountpoint
> /mountpoint2"?
> 
> If that is the case, then a simple: cp -R /boot /new-boot-location
> should do it.

You'll probably want to add the "-p" option to copy permissions, ownership,
etc.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:21:06 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote:

> You'll probably want to add the "-p" option to copy permissions,
> ownership, etc.

Use -a (--archive), which preserves everything it can.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Sean Higgins]

Richard,

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:53 am, Richard Watson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete contents
> of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the
> correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc.

One way to do it is to do the following:

mount -o ro /dev/hdb1 old
mount /dev/hda1 new
cd old
tar cvf - * | tar xf -C ../new/

                          Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:24:46 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote:

> > Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete
> > contents of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would
> > anyone know the correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc.
> 
> One way to do it is to do the following:
> 
> mount -o ro /dev/hdb1 old
> mount /dev/hda1 new
> cd old
> tar cvf - * | tar xf -C ../new/

* doesn't match hidden files, so the copy will be incomplete.

My favourite method is: rsync -a old/ new/


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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Sean Higgins]

> > tar cvf - * | tar xf -C ../new/
>
> * doesn't match hidden files, so the copy will be incomplete.

Neil,

Interesting.  I had not thought about that.  I did use the above to recreate 
my hard drive from one hard drive to another one.  It worked well, I guess I 
lucked out that I did not have any hidden files in the "old" directory.

                               Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[River Yan]

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try to use dd

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Sean Higgins]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 09:37 pm, River Yan wrote:
> try to use dd

Ryan,

dd would be a good choice if the partitions are the same size.  I do not think 
it works as well of you are changing the sizes of the partitions.

                            Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Andreas Fredriksson]

On 7/28/05, Sean Higgins <sean@systura.com> wrote:
> > > tar cvf - * | tar xf -C ../new/
> >
> > * doesn't match hidden files, so the copy will be incomplete.
> 
> Neil,
> 
> Interesting.  I had not thought about that.  I did use the above to recreate
> my hard drive from one hard drive to another one.  It worked well, I guess I
> lucked out that I did not have any hidden files in the "old" directory.

A better option is to use . (dot) a the directory. Also adding -p to
preserve permissions is essential when backing up a whole system:

tar cfp - . | (cd /target/path && tar xvfp -)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:14:47 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote:

> dd would be a good choice if the partitions are the same size.  I do
> not think it works as well of you are changing the sizes of the
> partitions.

dd is fine, if very slow, when the target partition is larger than the
source. You will need to resize the filesystem after copying, but that's
a trivial task with most filesystems.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

[River Yan]

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On 8/5/05, Andreas Fredriksson <deplinenoise@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> A better option is to use . (dot) a the directory. Also adding -p to
> preserve permissions is essential when backing up a whole system:
> 
> tar cfp - . | (cd /target/path && tar xvfp -)


try to use "find" to get all files?




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