Philip Webb wrote: > Anyway, I've reformatted my partitions to Reiserfs without re-installing > (clever, aren't I ? -- big grin). Besides / + /home , > I have a big hangar-openspace partition I call /z ( 60 GB ), > which is useful for unpacking stuff & has /z/tmp for Emerge to use. > I created a dir /z/store3 , then did 'cp -a bin /z/store3' etc > for all the dirs in / ; next I used SystemRescue to reformat /dev/hda3 , > which is mounted as / , then 'cp -a' everything back again. > And it worked !! Similarly for /home & for /z itself (using /store6 ). > NB WARNING : if anyone else wants to do this, 'cp -a' is your friend, > but be very careful to proof-read all your commands as you do it > & use 'du' etc to check that the data really is being copied; > some of the copies take a few minutes, but they do get there. > > So far, I'm very impressed with the ASUS 1005HA & even more with Gentoo, > which is perfectly fit for this kind of job. Try a binary distro, > run into any kind of problem & what can you do ? Gentoo makes it work ! > > Now I have to resume getting X to work properly. > >
cp -a is your friend. If you want to see the copy, just make it -av instead. I have used cp -av for a long time to move my Gentoo install from one drive to another. It's really simple to do with it. Just don't forget to put the boot manager on the new drive if you are moving a install. Dale :-) :-)
