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On Friday 11 November 2005 23.50, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> Just received a new, unformatted SATA 120G HD with the |
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> intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it |
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> from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I |
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> can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had |
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> changed. |
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> Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job? |
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> Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs? |
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> -mw |
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I would recommend creating a new file system on the destination drive. |
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The do a rsync -axH src dst |
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Then install grub on the master boot sector on the destination drive |
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as specified in the gentoo installation manual. |
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I have had problems with dd ghosting in the past but rsync has worked |
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flawlessly so far. |
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Jimmy |
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