I have Gentoo partially installed on a hard drive. It's taken a day so
far to compile stage1 (but it's almost done), so I'm not about to delete
it all and start over on a new disk. But I'd like to pop in this newer,
faster, bigger disk before I continue the install, since I'll be
compiling
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 02:21 -0400, Colin wrote:
I assume I can just fdisk the new drive and then cp -L /dev/hdbn
/dev/hdan my partitions (where n={1,2,3}). Being a *nix newbie, I
think I'd better check before I do something potentially dangerous (for
example, I already know I'm missing an
On 2005-04-05 02:21:25 -0400 (Tue, Apr), Colin wrote:
I have Gentoo partially installed on a hard drive. It's taken a day so
far to compile stage1 (but it's almost done), so I'm not about to delete
it all and start over on a new disk. But I'd like to pop in this newer,
faster, bigger disk
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Do not use cp, it doesn't preserve permission bits.
cp -a does and is much faster than rsync.
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:06 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Do not use cp, it doesn't preserve permission bits.
cp -a does and is much faster than rsync.
if you want to populate new hard drive w/o anything on it. I suggest you
use
tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs
somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your
new, blank, drive.
However,
cp -dpRa /* /mnt/newdrive
-does- do the job properly; it complains that it is skipping the
recursive copy of
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:31:04 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs
somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your
new, blank, drive.
It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses
tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs
somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your
new, blank, drive.
It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses
stdout, you need the -f option to use a file, so you
Hey!, learn something new every day!
Thanks!,
rgh.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:31:04 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs
somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your
new, blank, drive.
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
Hey!, learn something new every day!
Obviously you weren't reading my very 1st post. I did put in the exact
same directive.
Thanks!,
rgh.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:31:04 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
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