On Friday 07 April 2006 23:32, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a > different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- > how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information > of the old root as possible) > > Is cp -a sufficient ? Why not? Just make sure after you finish copying all the files that you install grub to the new disk and make it bootable etc. If you are using lvm this is easier because you can do a pvmove to migrate the data to the new disk.....
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