On 2005-04-05 02:21:25 -0400 (Tue, Apr), Colin wrote:
> I have Gentoo partially installed on a hard drive. It's taken a day so
> far to compile stage1 (but it's almost done), so I'm not about to delete
> it all and start over on a new disk. But I'd like to pop in this newer,
> faster, bigger disk before I continue the install, since I'll be
> compiling programs and a faster disk would help out a little bit,
> especially with only 128 MB of RAM.
>
> I assume I can just fdisk the new drive and then "cp -L /dev/hdbn
> /dev/hdan" my partitions (where n={1,2,3}). Being a *nix newbie, I
> think I'd better check before I do something potentially dangerous (for
> example, I already know I'm missing an option to preserve permissions).
> You think good. But - you should not copy /dev/hd*, you should mount the disks and then copy the directories. I suppose that the -L option is not the right one. -R (recursive) and -p (preserve permissions and owners) are better. Rough guideline: mkdir /mnt/new_one mount /dev/hdan /mnt/new_one cp -Rp /where_you_current_gentoo_reside /mnt/new_one HTH -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART
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