On May 29, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Heinz Diehl wrote:
>
>>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
>>> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
>
>> I've done that quite often, and it's no problem.
>>
>> 1. Boot from an external medium, e.g. www.sysrescc
On 29.05.2014, Temlakos wrote:
> All I want to do is move the contents of /home. What are the
> best commands for doing this?
If you want to move the whole /home directory as is:
rsync -avxHSAX /home/ /new/home
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On 29.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Don't you have to correct UUIDs in /etc/fstab on the new disk?
Yes. Either that, or adjust the new UUIDs to the old ones.
It's done quickly, should have mentioned that.
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Once upon a time, g said:
> i do not know what version of 'cp' you have, but i can tell you that
> "cp (GNU coreutils) 8.4" does not copy directories or files that have
> a space in their name.
That is not true. cp handles files with any characters just fine (just
tested on an old RHEL 4 system
On 05/29/14 07:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
<<<>>>
hello Joachim,
Hi G, you are sure?
backes@eule [~]: rm -rf 'aa aa' 'bb bb'
backes@eule [~]: mkdir 'aa aa'
backes@eule [~]: cp -xaP 'aa aa' 'bb bb'/
backes@eule [~]: ls -l aa* bb*
aa aa:
total 0
bb bb:
total 0
My /bin/cp belongs to coreutils-8
Heinz Diehl wrote:
>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
>> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
> I've done that quite often, and it's no problem.
>
> 1. Boot from an external medium, e.g. www.sysresccd.org
> 2. Mount both disks
> 3. Use "rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /ta
On 05/29/2014 01:20 PM, g wrote:
>
>
> On 05/28/14 09:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
>> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
>> I've partitioned the new disk.
>> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
>> with "cp -a" (
On 05/28/14 09:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of messa
On 05/29/2014 02:19 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 28.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under
On 29.05.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>- mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
Where "/dev/sdaX" is your root partition. Forgot to mention that,
sorry!
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On 28.05.2014, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I've used rsync to do this (you have to go through the gazillion
> options to get all the appropriate ones though).
"rsync -avxHSAX" will do it all.
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On 28.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
> I've partitioned the new disk.
> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
> with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
> I get a lot of
On May 28, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014 14:36:27 +0100
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> I've used rsync to do this (you have to go through the gazillion
> options to get all the appropriate ones though).
Anaconda LiveCD uses -
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I've used rsync to do this (you have to go through the gazillion
> options to get all the appropriate ones though).
Thanks for your and the many other suggestions.
I'm going to follow your advice and use rsync,
which seems most appropriate since the I have already copied the
Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy said:
> I'm planning on saying "rsync -auvz" (which is my usual recipe).
> If anyone can suggest better options I shall be glad to hear them.
For copying the OS, you will also want -HAX to correctly copy
hard-linked files, access-control lists, and extended attrib
Once upon a time, Tony Nelson said:
> -a includes -P, so copying symlinks is not his problem. His problem
> is that the links are broken, as reported by diff.
I'm not sure what environment the OP was using to do the copy (e.g.
rescue mode, live CD, etc.), but some things install relative links,
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions?
> I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
> and I was not sure if this would cause problems.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
IMHO, the best choice for the
On 14-05-28 12:28:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 06:19 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > On 14-05-28 12:09:15, Joachim Backes wrote:
...
> >> I think the Option "-P" will do it.
> >
> > -a does it, but diff is complaining that the links are broken.
> > In my case, /bin/acroread -> /opt/Adobe
On 05/28/2014 06:19 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 14-05-28 12:09:15, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 05/28/2014 04:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB
On 14-05-28 12:09:15, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 04:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
> >> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
> >> I've partitioned the new disk.
> >> W
On 05/28/2014 04:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
>> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
>> I've partitioned the new disk.
>> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
>>
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of mess
On 28 May 2014 at 14:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
From: Timothy Murphy
Subject:Moving Fedora system to new disk
Date sent: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:36:27 +0100
Organization: Trinity College
"dd" is a much better command that "cp" for this. See the following
for more info and a good background as to what is going on:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_Cloning
The sections on "Cloning a partition" and "Cloning an entire hard
disk" are the bits you want. Also take a look at th
On 5/28/14, 9:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
Any suggestions gratefully received.
If your using lvm, what I typically do is add both disks to the volume
group, then you can use pvmove to move your lv's to the new pv. The
just vgreduce the o
There must be a zillion ways to do this (rsync, cpio, even cp) so I'll
throw in my personal favorite:
# cd /old
# tar --one-file-system -cf - . | (cd /new && tar xpf -)
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On Wed, 28 May 2014 14:36:27 +0100
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
I've used rsync to do this (you have to go through the gazillion
options to get all the appropriate ones though).
You'll also have to do something like boot from a live CD
in order to run grub-install
I'd also have expected cp -a to work.
Sorry, I can't say what the problem with that is,
but my next try would be rsync.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 09:36 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
>> to a new ha
On 05/28/2014 09:36 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of me
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of messages of the form
diff: a/bin/acroread: No su
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