On Lu, 26 mar 12, 09:47:06, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/25/2012 2:48 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > > > As far as the root partition itself, just make a new file system in > > the partition you want to be the new boot and use tar to copy the old > > root over. Make sure you don't copy anything mounted on root - just > > root itself. > > 'cp -a' worked fine for me the last time I did such a boot/root > filesystem migration to a new disk. What advantage does tar have here?
I'll add 'rsync -ax' in the mix. 'x' will take care of ignoring other filesystems (like /dev /sys or whatever). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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