Hi again,

> It's far better to do a copy from old to new using a live dvd (in
> order to work on a cleanly unmounted and not write accessed disk); if
> you are in a real hurry, you could start doing a copy (at file system
> level, i.e. cp) from old disk to new disk, and then later synchronize
> it (e.g. re-copying all files changed from the first cp command).

hmm, I always thought that cp wouldn't copy block devices and pipes
and sparse files and other "non-standard" files correctly?
But maybe that's no longer the case with modern versions.

Thanks,

        Horst

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