[email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have to move my whole system from one disk to another
> bigger one.
>
> I think of doing as follows:
> Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example).
> Mount small disk read-only
> Mount bigger disk read-write
>
> cd into mountpoint of the first one
> cp -a . ../<mountpoint_of_bigger_disk>
>
> Seems to me slow but correct? Or?
>
> (I have to set the bootable flag of the correct partion
> additionally...)
>
> I dont want to have a booting system afterwards, which "runs" for --
> say -- three month and suddenly hit a obscure bug due to my
> copy-commands, which only did it to 99.87% correct... ;)
>
> I would like to preserve as much as possible of the file/directoy
> times ,,,
>
> Or does a mystical command with s-tar a better job faster?
>
> Thank you very much in adance for any help!
I like rsync and be sure to say --numeric-ids or whatever to retain the
same userids for permissions, but otherwise you are good to go.
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