On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:12:30PM +1200, Steve Crosby wrote: > > Rsync is cool if you have installed it. Mount the empty partition on > > /mnt/lfs-new and run: > > > > rsync -a /mnt/lfs/ /mnt/lfs-new > > > > (NB: the trailing slash on /mnt/lfs/ is important, don't leave it > > out!) > > Just as a note for the unwary - make sure you don't have proc, > sysfs, dev et al mounted in /mnt/lfs when you create the tarball or > copy the files to the new partition ;)
D'oh! "rsync -ax" won't recurse into mount points so that's safer. /dev is OK if it's a regular file system, "rsync -a" handles device nodes fine. If you're using devfs/udev it's probably a different story. For real peace of mind, boot off a Knoppix Live CD or similar, mount both the old and new partitions to temporary directories and rsync them. Now you *know* exactly what you're copying. Works for / partitions too! Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
