Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

[Dale]

Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I
> want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this:
>
> 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd
> 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr,
> /var, /tmp and /opt in lvm2 volumes and /boot on it's own partition)
> 3.) mount my new disk ind /new (just 2 partitions, 1 for / and 1 for /boot)
> 4.) copy from /old to /new
> 5.) modify fstab and prepare grub
> 6.) reboot
>
> Concerning step 4: what is the best copy command?
> I tried with
>
> cp -a /old/* /new
>
> but got some problems in /home. My user dir got the wrong permissions (I
> d'ont know, if this is in some way connected with /home being a mount
> point). Of course this could be the same in other dirs.
>
> Is there a better method? I read years ago on this list about using tar
> with this (piping the tar output into a second tar command, which
> extracts the files to their final destination).
>
> Are there other tools? Or did I use cp in a wrong way?
>
> Regards
> Marc
>
>

I always used cp -av myself and it always worked.  I never had 
permission problems either.

Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or something 
like that.  I don't have the command tho since I never used it.

Dale

:-)  :-)