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 4.50) id 1Eaibp-0004gC-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:47:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jABNjecP019129; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:45:41 GMT Received: from megahappy.net (82-182-31-216.tierzero.net [216.31.182.82] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jABNfCwX031662 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:41:12 GMT Received: by megahappy.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 263F74C006; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megahappy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233F568028 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:41:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:41:11 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Whitehead To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive In-Reply-To: <20051111225022.50248.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20051111225022.50248.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 7ec5289d-71ec-4f57-8fa5-937ae31293ef X-Archives-Hash: 347255214bc5a7b978a442d682612d71 The best way would to be to create a new filesystem on the new disk. Then copy the data via rsync. had you used a real fs, like xfs, you could do a dump/restore to generate an exact copy at the filesystem level (full acl, and other details embedded into a filesystem) On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just received a new, unformatted SATA 120G HD with the > intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it > from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I > can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had > changed. > > Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job? > Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs? > > -mw > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > -- Bryan Whitehead Email:driver@megahappy.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list