On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:00, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and > taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I > want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a > pretty painless way of doing this?
tar or cpio are the standard tools. I had great grief with soft links across partitions, though. I.e. /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /home If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot on /dev/hdc2, then symlinks like /vmlinuz which are now /new/treeroot/vmlinuz still point back to /dev/hda1 instead of automagically pointing to /dev/hdb1. Absolute symlinks (like all the stuff in /etc/alternatives) really fouled up the whole operation... Maybe if tarring / to tape (excluding /var & /home) then restoring to the new device would work. The absolute symlinks might still bollix things up, though. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea | | which could only have originated in California." | | --Edsger Dijkstra | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
