On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: > Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up > questions: > > 1. How do I get to single user mode without rebooting? > (I know I should already know this.)
init 1 > 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the > partitions from /dev/hdaX to /dev/mdY? Once I'm in > single user mode can I just "cp -R /dev/hdaX > /dev/mdY"? You definitely do _not_ want to just run cp -r; that would destroy all of your file ownership and permission settings. cp -a is better, since it preserves those, but I'm not sure how well it handles links and device files. Not well, I suspect. > - create /mnt/newroot > > - then: > > cd / > find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot This is a much saner option. Personally, I mount the device directly on /mnt, then use: find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt If the other version came from the HOWTO, I suppose it should work, but it could have problems with filenames containing spaces or certain other odd characters (prevented by the -print0 / -0). The -d on cpio ensures that leading directories will be created, which is mostly just paranoia in this case, and -v is the ever-popular verbose flag, because I like to see what it's doing. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
