On 03/20/2013 07:41 PM, Nicholas McCurdy-Luksch wrote: > 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 >>
Please don't top post. I am for tar approach, but in that case no need for "dd" ... If you use "dd" you'll get a copy of your partition which will be the same size as your partition - not cool if you want to resize it. Just extract the tarball on the new partition - worked for me always. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
