From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVqHu-0002Vx-QW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:48:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73ACAE07D0; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2E9E07D0 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so670747ywh.10 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:48:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=qZaB3nMZ8kHMeD47N6FKZn5xTv6S55NVIYm5lcEInqI=; b=xkcdSUCAKSD5peD8cUJACLtKTKJhxX0o484T9jRbbTRzhpZcehSXd65/C8QEQ47dhb Se/Mob7ymZNhk7KjsPUMiy9kab5zahJiOBWh3QZclgl+VK6oMfuDOC0h/x1KtEMmJHcv hd7RCJeZwfkWGneJDvqz2uNqRR31CZCltHdYo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=q49GU6mByiLZWTZAeXYT1ZQbQKhZb6pSJ5GzyFPRRijzhsDayNMnyiAcab+y4I8xX6 ZTGcO/XptWTUN3NTRKRu6D3D59U3wGKGd1jGesu7j+N/qpq/1gfM/Jb0p4Hz5iqdtuNd HOlrWVXgiy0UaSrfx0UiVsaOnSGq45LVsW8Uc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.192.73 with SMTP id d9mr268157hbi.173.1263577689243; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:48:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B50A6F0.8060404@gmail.com> References: <4B50A6F0.8060404@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:48:09 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk? From: Hazen Valliant-Saunders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485f7d648504290047d379b37 X-Archives-Salt: 2396d55f-6c3c-4d78-9de3-ac3c4a256275 X-Archives-Hash: f95485e7a8cb1abfe3fc26bf65ba3ac3 --001485f7d648504290047d379b37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, I'm facing this problem: > > I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger > one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point > permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive > to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, > I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe > I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? > > First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories > I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not > know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, > where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). > > Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? > > Jarry > > -- > _______________________________________________________________ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977 --001485f7d648504290047d379b37 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tar is your friend and ally.

1. install and Mount the disk to a moun= t point.
2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose
https://help.ubuntu.com/= community/BackupYourSystem/TAR
3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary.
4. ge= t a drink.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33= PM, Jarry <mr.j= arry@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm facin= g this problem:

I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger
one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point
permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive
to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course,
I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe
I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this?

First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directo= ries
I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not
know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target,
where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?).

Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else?

Jarry

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