Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this:
1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and /opt in lvm2 volumes and /boot on it's own partition) 3.) mount my new disk ind /new (just 2 partitions, 1 for / and 1 for /boot) 4.) copy from /old to /new 5.) modify fstab and prepare grub 6.) reboot Concerning step 4: what is the best copy command? I tried with cp -a /old/* /new but got some problems in /home. My user dir got the wrong permissions (I d'ont know, if this is in some way connected with /home being a mount point). Of course this could be the same in other dirs. Is there a better method? I read years ago on this list about using tar with this (piping the tar output into a second tar command, which extracts the files to their final destination). Are there other tools? Or did I use cp in a wrong way? Regards Marc
