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 > >
That's how I do mine and I have done it several times. The only thing I add is the v option. I like to see the stuff scroll by. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
