Re: [gentoo-user] plain copy of root disk won't work - SOLVED

[Raffaele BELARDI]

ëÏÎÓÔÁÎÔÉÎ wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:30:28PM +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>> I want to move the main disk contents (hda, PATA) to another, larger
>> disk (sda, SATA).
>>
>> hda contains 4 ext3 partitions (root, home, data, swap).
>> I created 4 ext3 partitions on sda and copied the data over from the
>> corresponding hda partitions using 'cp -ax'.
>
> Didn't you do this from working system on hda? In this case there
> really could be troubles with special files etc. Imho live-cd better
> for this purpose.
>

Yes, I was working from a live system. Using rsync and booting from live 
CD did the trick.

thanks,

raffaele