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

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

remember to use --exclude to "exclude" your new drive's mounted point. \

and to use a pipe
so your command would look like:

root@yoursystem #cd /
root@yoursystem #tar -cvpzf - -–exclude=/- --exclude=/mnt/newdrive | cd
/mnt/newdrive (tar -xvpf -)

If all else fails!
# man tar

Regards,
Hazen.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@×××××.com
> 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> 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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