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From: Mauro Faccenda <faccenda@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:14:50
Message-Id: 200706081301.17615.faccenda@gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition by Albert Hopkins
1 On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > >
5 > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
6 > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
7 > > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
8 >
9 > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' for that
10 > purpose. But what I usually do is 'tar -c ... | tar -x ...'. I don't
11 > really know if it's better or not than using 'cp'. I just do it out of
12 > habit.
13
14 if you do tar in this way, is better to use "tar -pc ... | tar -px ..."
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Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>