On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 02:21 -0400, Colin wrote:
> I assume I can just fdisk the new drive and then "cp -L /dev/hdbn
> /dev/hdan" my partitions (where n={1,2,3}). Being a *nix newbie, I
> think I'd better check before I do something potentially dangerous (for
> example, I already know I'm missing an option to preserve permissions).
Do not use cp, it doesn't preserve permission bits.
use either tar or rsync.
eg: (I do this quite often to change from hda2 to hda5 for example)
sudo rsync -av --progress --delete / /New/partition
and you can choose which to exclude too eg:
--exclude /home --exclude /dev --exclude /mnt --exclude /tmp
--exclude /proc --exclude /sys
or use Tar
su -
cd / && tar -cf - * | (cd /new/partition; tar -xvpf - )
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