Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
my harddisk begins to sound a little "strange"...I fear I have to
buy a new (bigger) one.
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 ?
In this case is conservation of information more worth than
performance for me.
Thank you very much for any help in advance !
gen2! :)
mcc
Here is my favorite way, I tar them over
cd /mnt/source
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -)
See man tar for the flags.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_16.html
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