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On Friday 15 January 2010 20:33:36 Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi, I'm facing this problem: |
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> I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger |
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> one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point |
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> permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive |
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> to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, |
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> I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe |
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> I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? |
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> First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories |
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> I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not |
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> know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, |
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> where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). |
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> Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? |
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> Jarry |
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it depends on how your drive partitioned and which FS is used. For example, if |
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the root disk (i.e. w/o /home and possibly /var directories) is the separate |
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partition with XFS file system you can use simultanious dump and restore on live |
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system. Not all FS has dump/restore utilities, however if it is available it |
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should be prefered over cp and tar and, possibly, rsync. |
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