From: Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:09:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fysn3hoi.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43178FD3.9050401@planet.nl> (Holly Bostick's message of "Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:33:39 +0200")
Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> writes:
> 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?
cp -a would preserve all file attributes. rsync would probably be
better.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-02 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:16 ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:33 ` Holly Bostick
2005-09-02 10:09 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2005-09-01 23:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02 0:05 ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02 1:31 ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07 1:08 ` waltdnes
2005-09-07 15:49 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02 6:23 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer
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