I've had very good success with cp -ax. The x makes it "Skip
subdirectories that are on different filesystems from the one that the
copy started on", so you have to create the /proc mount point on the
new system. (proc is a virtual file system, provided by the kernel,
so you don't have to wo
On 20 Feb, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo.
> I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a
> different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian.
>
>I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of
Check out http://www.storm.ca/~yan/upgrade.html. That is the home of the
HD upgrade mini-HOWTO. Basically, it covers the essentials of what you
want to do (clone a drive). The only difference is that you'll want to
keep your old drive, and pull the new one, where the mini-HOWTO has it the
other
I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo.
I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a
different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian.
I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of using tar.
However, could someone point m
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