RE: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemmann, Volker Armin 
> [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:19 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
> 
> 
> On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
> 
> nope.
> 
> cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that 
> the ctime/mtime 
> making uninstalling things a pain?
> 
> When I moved around on harddisks some years ago, I followed 
> some instructions 
> found on the suse-hp. And they used tar.

***********WARNING***********
I am probably missing something, so beware.  I am sure people with
more experience will fill in the details, so don't try this till
everyone else has a chance to chime in. :P

I don't know all the details, but from what I understand basically boot
into 
a live disk type environment, tar everything in a way that reserves
permissions
and all the file info, and then untar it in the new root directory.

If grub.conf will be in a new location, then make sure to make the right
Changes in grub.  If you have a separate /boot parition, then that
should
be ok, just make the right changes in grub.conf.

That SHOULD work. ^^;
Make sure not to actually delete anything until you know it works. ^_^


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