On 11:20:51 Tim Egbert wrote: >>Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive? > >On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the >root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the >various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second >drive just has the /home directory tree. > Tim, This question of replicating a filesystem is one that comes up often. I use cpio to do this, and so far its been flawless for me. It creates an exact duplicate of a filesystem, and the following command preserves file access times, symlinks, etc. Works nice, and its simple. Just cd to the root of the filesystem you wish to duplicate, and issues the following command:
# find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /target_directory This is based on cpio's "pass thru" mode. Everything appearing on stdin goes to stdout.... Paul
