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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T |
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>> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. |
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> Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb |
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Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol' |
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tar - after lots of research, it was the only way I found to be sure |
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hard links would still be linked in the new filesystem. |
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IIRC, rsync does not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken? |
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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) |
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gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |
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