On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > 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? > > No. > > cp -a is equivalent to cp -dpPR > > and from the man page: > > -p same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps > > What the OP *will* have a problem with a copying /proc, /dev, /sys and > other virtual filesystems. When I do this trick, I usually dd or tar or > cp -a entire filesystems and then copy / with this trick: > > mount -o bind / /some/tmp/dir > cp -a /some/tmp/dir /some/other/dir > > This ensures that only files actually on-disk are copied > > alan > > > -- > Optimists say the glass is half full, > Pessimists say the glass is half empty, > Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? > > Alan McKinnon > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment dd if=/dev/<source partition> of=/dev/<destination partition> Tim Allingham tim -at- datafirst-it.com.au
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