Andrew Smallshaw <[email protected]> schrieb: >Briefly, fdisk then disklabel then newfs the new root partition. >No need for tar etc if you're mounting it in a USB enclosure, a >simple cp -Rp will do the trick.
Yes, but with cp it is afaik impossible to make shure that no files got curruptes on the way. Another often used way offers rsync -arv - especially helpful if you have large file trees taking longer times. This allows you to restart the job any time later and/or check double just by restarting rsync or (if you want to go bit by bit with md5 sums). With rsync, tar and cp you have to make shure that you just copy files which has to be copied from a up and running root filesystem and i.e. no other mountpoints etc.. hth, best regards, Niels. -- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT&Internet http://www.syndicat.com
