remember to use --exclude to "exclude" your new drive's mounted point. \
and to use a pipe so your command would look like: r...@yoursystem #cd / r...@yoursystem #tar -cvpzf - -–exclude=/- --exclude=/mnt/newdrive | cd /mnt/newdrive (tar -xvpf -) If all else fails! # man tar Regards, Hazen. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Hazen Valliant-Saunders <haze...@gmail.com > wrote: > Tar is your friend and ally. > > 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. > 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR > 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary. > 4. get a drink. > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, I'm facing this problem: >> >> I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger >> one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point >> permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive >> to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, >> I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe >> I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? >> >> First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories >> I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not >> know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, >> where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). >> >> Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? >> >> Jarry >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________________________ >> This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! >> Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. >> >> > > > -- > Hazen Valliant-Saunders > IT/IS Consultant > (613) 355-5977 > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
