I decided to upgrade the internal drive, so I hooked up the new on on the CD's usual SATA channel and installed, having adjust the disklabel more to suit me (the auto partition of /usr left it really tight on space, and home was not big enough).
First method: mount all the slices in /tree and run a series of cp -R as root. Files seemed to get there but something was not right with permissions when I tried booting the new disk, so I dropped back and did some research. Reinstalled, mounted the new slices as before, and ran: #!/bin/sh tar -cXf - /* | tar -xpf - -C /tree tar -cXf - /home/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/home tar -cXf - /usr/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/usr tar -cXf - /usr/X11R6/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/usr/X11R6 tar -cXf - /usr/local/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/usr/local tar -cXf - /usr/obj/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/usr/obj tar -cXf - /usr/src/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/usr/src tar -cXf - /var/* | tar -xpf - -C /tree/var I had copied the new disk's fstab so that the duids were right when I started from it. Results were interesting. I got another copy of /home inside /tree/home, as well as what I wanted in it, and youtube-dl turns out to make filenames too long for tar. Nevertheless, I could log in as myself. But running my usual packages at login didn't work: file not found. Should I have not tried to save that much time? I thought tar | tar would get everything. Do I need to install the packages on the new disk? Is this a time that pkg_check is my friend? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL
