Marc Blumentritt, Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:20:55 +0100: > 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
Try rsync -auD --verbose --progress --exclude="/proc" --exclude="/sys" -- exclude="/dev" /old/ /new/ and then copy over /dev/console, /dev/tty and/or any other /devices Lubos
