Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.cawrote: Just be careful to only backup the partition's own files. I.e. use the --one-file-system argument. Otherwise you might start copying /sys, /proc and that will get you into trouble. I mounted /dev/mmcblk0p3

Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-12 Thread Matthias Huber
Torfinn Ingolfsen schrieb: Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca mailto:monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: Just be careful to only backup the partition's own files. I.e. use the --one-file-system argument. Otherwise you might start copying

QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-09 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, My current setup fr QtMoko is like this: I have QtMoko v8 installed on p2 of the Sdcard (root=/dev/mmcblk0p2). And I have a backup partition on /dev/mmcblk0p3. Before I upgrade p2 to QtMoko v9, I wish to migrate everything from there to p3. Can I just use cp or tar while I am booted in

Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-09 Thread Radek Polak
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: My current setup fr QtMoko is like this: I have QtMoko v8 installed on p2 of the Sdcard (root=/dev/mmcblk0p2). And I have a backup partition on /dev/mmcblk0p3. Before I upgrade p2 to QtMoko v9, I wish to migrate everything from there to p3. Can I just use cp or

Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Can I just use cp or tar while I am booted in QtMoko v8 to copy everything over? Yes. Some of the files may change while you copy them over, but as long as *you* don't actively modify important files during the copy, the files that change won't make a difference (they'll be things like syslog