Hi Adam, You wrote:
Adam
Adam Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using
Adam was this:
Adam
Adam cd /mnt find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p
Adam mkdir proc mkdir mnt # 'find ./' find ALL files, starting at
Adam the root directory. # 'grep -v ./mnt' Lets
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From: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Jason Kusnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Moving files to a new partition. Please help.
Date: Thursday, November 07
Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using was this:
cd /mnt
find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p
Well, we're well off the topic of Debian, not to mention Linux-specific
problems, but
you could have replaced the grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc with just
My friend and I have installed debian, but he has not signed up to this
list.
He just got a new larger hard drive for debian, and wanted to move his
installed setup onto the new one. I have the old one mounted as root, and
the new one mounted on '/mnt'. I have run mkfs on the new HD.
I need to
Hi Adam, You wrote:
Adam
Adam My friend and I have installed debian, but he has not signed up
Adam to this list.
Adam
Adam He just got a new larger hard drive for debian, and wanted to
Adam move his installed setup onto the new one. I have the old one
Adam mounted as root, and the new one
I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, without
having and links destroyed, and without entering the neverending loop with
regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All attempts that I have done have
resulted in files that links pointed being copies, instead of just making a
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