Am Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 21:47:54 schrieb Leif Lourie: > Leif Lourie wrote: > > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Leif Lourie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-06 19:52]: > >>> I have a good installation on a disk and want to move it to another. > >>> I tried to partition the new disk in the same way as the previous. > >>> Copied all the files over. Made sure that fstab was correct. > >> > >> How did you copy the files? We recently had someone who used "cp" and > >> when he used "tar" instead it work. Have you copied the files while > >> the nslu2 was running on it? I suggest you connect the hard drive to > >> a PC and then copy the files from there. > > > > I connected both hard drives to another linux box and copied using cp. > > I will try the using tar instead. > > > > Thanks! > > Just to follow up on this issue for people coming after me, having the > same problem. > For some reason cp doesn't copy all the files. There was some random > mismatch between the two drives after using cp. > tar did the trick.
That's interesting, should this behaviour be expected from a stable system? Of what kind was the random mismatch? Peter Teichmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
