"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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