RE: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan@××××××××××××××××.za]
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:48 AM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
>
>
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
> >
> > nope.
> >
> > cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that the
> > ctime/mtime making uninstalling things a pain?
>
> No.
>
> cp -a is equivalent to cp -dpPR
>
> and from the man page:
>
> -p     same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
>
> What the OP *will* have a problem with a copying /proc, /dev,
> /sys and
> other virtual filesystems. When I do this trick, I usually dd
> or tar or
> cp -a entire filesystems and then copy / with this trick:
>
> mount -o bind / /some/tmp/dir
> cp -a /some/tmp/dir /some/other/dir
>
> This ensures that only files actually on-disk are copied
>
> alan
Is it possible to handle the tar process from inside a liveCD
environment, and just tar the mount points (i.e. empty directories)
for the virtual file systems instead of trying to tar the virtaul
file systems themselves?  Afterall, they are recreated at boot
time, aren't they?
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