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cp -a works, i just like pipes. |
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: |
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>> Tar is your friend and ally. |
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>> 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. |
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>> 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose |
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>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR |
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>> 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary. |
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>> 4. get a drink. |
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>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com <mailto: |
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>> mr.jarry@×××××.com>> 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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> I have done this several times and only used cp -a. I just skipped /dev, |
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> /proc, /tmp and other none needed ones. Don't forget to copy console and |
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> null in /dev tho. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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