Ron Johnson schreef: > On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote: >> >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a >>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice. >> >> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"? >> >> I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you can >> easily spot aborted transfers by the fact that the original device is >> not empty afterwards. > > One note is that I've had issues where symlinks remain pointing to the > old drive. (That was a long time ago, though, and maybe I did something > wrong.) I thought symlinks keep point via a file location memo, like "look at /usr/share/the/file/you/want", which is the old location just after copying, but the new location when you boot from your new device and that becomes root.
Sjoerd
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