Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> writes: > I decided to upgrade the internal drive, so I hooked up the new on on > the CD's usual SATA channel and installed, having adjust the disklabel > more to suit me (the auto partition of /usr left it really tight on > space, and home was not big enough). > > First method: mount all the slices in /tree and run a series of cp -R > as root. Files seemed to get there but something was not right with > permissions when I tried booting the new disk, so I dropped back and > did some research.
For this kind of things, dump/restore is a good way too that won't mess anything. AFAIK your differents source directories (/, /home, ...) have to already be differents partitions, then you can go like this: # mount -o async /dev/sd?a /tree # cd /tree # dump -0a -f - / | restore -rf - # mount -o async /dev/sd?d /tree/home # cd /tree/home # dump -0a -f - /home | restore -rf - -- Manuel Giraud
