On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 08:38:43 +0100 Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm planning to migrate my system soon, but I'm going to do that a bit > differently. I'll dd my home partition across (I've got hard-links > galore, so a cp or rsync or whatever will have massive conniptions). What's wrong with an "rsync -aH"? This preserves hard links (given that the target system supports them. I honestly don't think that a dd is necessary. I have copied several times from one harddisk to another with different harddis partition sizes, but with enough free space on the target. I do the copying by booting a live usb stick, then I mount the source and the target partitions, and issue the rsync command (If you need extended attributes to be synced too, then there is an option for rsync too, e.g. ACL). rsync -aH --numeric-ids /path/to/source /path/to/target/ Cheers Andreas
