"Armin K." <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Thanks for your help. Finally i used tar and everything worked fine. Except the grub scripts did some chaos but i fixed that and now everything works fine
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