On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 06:30:50 -0700 (PDT) David Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "Pedro M (Morphix User)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anybody improve the page http://wiki.debian.net/?Move about the > > same topic ?. > > > Thank you a lot. > > > > After reviewing all of the helpful suggestions provided on this > list, I chose this method; it seemed simple and elegant. > > It bombed out pretty badly, though. My system froze in an endless > loop of error messages about "DMA table too small" on my destination > drive. A local Linux guru had warned me about making sure not to > copy the mounted destination partitions on top of themselves, so it > (in hindsight) seems logical to me that a command like > > > > tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) > > > > would try to copy /mnt/* to itself, unless 'tar' has built-in > safeguards. (As a newb, I don't know the answers to such questions > yet.) > > I'm going to try some variations on the above method -- excluding > /mnt from the tar process, for example -- and I'll post any > successes or failures back here. You might want to try reading the Howto on upgrading hard drives. More specifically, step 7 lists several different ways to copy an installation from one drive to another and mentions which directories to exclude. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
