> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:44:10 +0100 > From: "Armin K." <[email protected]> > To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] moving lfs > . . > > 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. >
The reason I didn't mention tar is that on various systems and versions, it can (at least historically) be a bit fiddly to preserve some permissions/ownerships/timestamps - depends on how much you're bothered about that - and sometimes chokes on 'special' files: hence the use instead of the likes of cpio; perhaps the newer tars are better in this respect. What you note about dd is not necessarily so: once you've got the image, you're not thereby constrained to have your new partition the same size as the image; you can for example write dd to an image file and then mount that before the copy-back to new partition, or use dd params to write however much you want, or use a filesys-resizer on (a copy of) the image before the write-back, and so on - lots of 'cool' stuff ;) . rgds, akh -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
