On 04/04/2010 20:05, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I have to move my whole system from one disk to another
bigger one.
I think of doing as follows:
Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example).
Mount small disk read-only
Mount bigger disk read-write
cd into mountpoint of the first one
cp -a . ../<mountpoint_of_bigger_disk>
Seems to me slow but correct? Or?
cp -a is fine although, in my experience, I've found that rsync is more
reliable:
rsync -av /mnt/oldrootfs/. /mnt/newrootfs/.
Note that -a covers almost everything but you may need the following
additional options depending on how your filesystem has been used:
-H = preserve hard link
-A = preserve ACLs
-X = preserve extended attributes (in in doubt, recommended)
Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind
mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time.
Cheers,
--Kerin
