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On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 08:38:43 +0100 |
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Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I'm planning to migrate my system soon, but I'm going to do that a bit |
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> differently. I'll dd my home partition across (I've got hard-links |
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> galore, so a cp or rsync or whatever will have massive conniptions). |
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What's wrong with an "rsync -aH"? This preserves hard links (given that the target system |
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supports them. |
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I honestly don't think that a dd is necessary. I have copied several times from one |
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harddisk to another with different harddis partition sizes, but with enough free space on |
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the target. |
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I do the copying by booting a live usb stick, then I mount the source and the target |
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partitions, and issue the rsync command (If you need extended attributes to be synced |
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too, then there is an option for rsync too, e.g. ACL). |
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rsync -aH --numeric-ids /path/to/source /path/to/target/ |
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Cheers |
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Andreas |
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