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On Friday 07 April 2006 23:32, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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> When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a |
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> different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- |
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> how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information |
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> of the old root as possible) |
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> Is cp -a sufficient ? |
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Why not? Just make sure after you finish copying all the files that you |
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install grub to the new disk and make it bootable etc. If you are using lvm |
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this is easier because you can do a pvmove to migrate the data to the new |
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disk..... |
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