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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:47:05
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511111535180.19148@beavis.megahappy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive by maxim wexler
1 The best way would to be to create a new filesystem on the new disk. Then
2 copy the data via rsync.
3
4 <startfsflamewar>
5 had you used a real fs, like xfs, you could do a dump/restore to generate
6 an exact copy at the filesystem level (full acl, and other details
7 embedded into a filesystem)
8 </startfsflamewar>
9
10 On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
11
12 > Hello everyone,
13 >
14 > Just received a new, unformatted SATA 120G HD with the
15 > intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it
16 > from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I
17 > can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had
18 > changed.
19 >
20 > Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job?
21 > Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs?
22 >
23 > -mw
24 >
25 >
26 >
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