If you do indeed have a spare disk kicking around, I'd make a giant tar of the entire tree as an additional backup.
And i tend to like using DD (with care) over rsync for whole partition movements too. Nicholas McCurdy-Luksch [email protected] [email protected] wrote: >> From [email protected] Wed Mar 20 18:26:50 2013 >> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:19:46 +0100 >> From: Sven Bartscher <[email protected]> >> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> >> Subject: [blfs-support] moving lfs >> >> i want to move my lfs-system on a logical partition because i have >> already four primary partitions on my drive and can't create any new but >> want a few more. So to do that i would: >> copy (with rsync) all the files from the lfs partition on another >> temporary partition (on another drive) >> delete the old partition and create the new logical partitions >> copy everything from the temporary partition back on the logical one >> edit /etc/fstab (obviously) >> i don't have to create a initramfs because i already have one. >> >> I there something i forgot? Something i don't need to do? Something i >> have to take care about? I'm really scared about something goes wrong, >> or something goes lost and all my work on my lfs-system is gone. How can >> i make sure that everything is copied right? Can i just be sure that >> rsync does everything right? Is there something else i should be >> scared/afraid of? >> with hopefull (and scared) regards >> Sven >> > > >I tend to find that dd and cpio are better than rsync &c for such stuff, as >there's less hassle over device-files and such like. > > > >rgds, >akh > > > > > >-- >-- >http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
