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

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

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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