On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:13, Zack Gilburd wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2003 04:14 pm, Chris Bare wrote:
> > > `rsync -rlopg --progress --exclude=3D/dev
> > > --exclude=3D/mnt/newdrve /=20 /mnt/newdrive` would be how I would
> > > do it. That command will preserve=20 permissions.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion. Someone else suggested I boot from the
> > install CD, so I combined your suggestions and was pleasantly
> > surprised at the ease with which this worked.
> >
> > I booted from the CD, partitioned and mounted the new drive as I
> > wanted, mounted the old drive, then did:
> >
> > rsync -a --progress /old/ /new
> >
> > Then I switched cables so the old drive was now hda, booted from
> > the CD and ran grub on hd0. It booted right up from the new drive
> > after that.
> >
> > The thing I like about gentoo is I really feel like I understand
> > what is going on, so I'm able to do things like this which I would
> > never dream of with Red Hat or Mandrake.
>
> Heh.... You're lucky, just -a won't preserve file permissions. :P
But it does. From man rsync:
-a, --archive archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
-g, --group preserve group
-D, --devices preserve devices (root only)
-t, --times preserve times
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