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Marc Blumentritt, Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:20:55 +0100: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I |
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> want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: |
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> 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd |
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> 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, |
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> /var, /tmp and /opt in lvm2 volumes and /boot on it's own partition) 3.) |
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> mount my new disk ind /new (just 2 partitions, 1 for / and 1 for /boot) |
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> 4.) copy from /old to /new |
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> 5.) modify fstab and prepare grub |
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> 6.) reboot |
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> Concerning step 4: what is the best copy command? I tried with |
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> cp -a /old/* /new |
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> but got some problems in /home. My user dir got the wrong permissions (I |
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> d'ont know, if this is in some way connected with /home being a mount |
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> point). Of course this could be the same in other dirs. |
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> Is there a better method? I read years ago on this list about using tar |
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> with this (piping the tar output into a second tar command, which |
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> extracts the files to their final destination). |
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> Are there other tools? Or did I use cp in a wrong way? |
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> Regards |
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> Marc |
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Try |
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rsync -auD --verbose --progress --exclude="/proc" --exclude="/sys" -- |
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exclude="/dev" /old/ /new/ |
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and then copy over /dev/console, /dev/tty and/or any other /devices |
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