Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?

[Dale]

Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
> Tar is your friend and ally.
>
> 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point.
> 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR
> 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary.
> 4. get a drink.
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com
> <mailto:mr.jarry@×××××.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, I'm facing this problem:
>
>     I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger
>     one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point
>     permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive
>     to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course,
>     I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe
>     I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this?
>
>     First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories
>     I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not
>     know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target,
>     where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?).
>
>     Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else?
>
>     Jarry
>
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I have done this several times and only used cp -a.  I just skipped 
/dev, /proc, /tmp and other none needed ones.  Don't forget to copy 
console and null in /dev tho.

Dale

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