On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
nope.
cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that the ctime/mti
On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
>
> nope.
>
> cp
> -Original Message-
> From: Hemmann, Volker Armin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:19 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
>
>
> On Freitag, 8. Juni 20
On Friday 08 June 2007 12:39, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > When I moved around on harddisks some years ago, I followed some
> > instructions found on the suse-hp. And they used tar.
>
> Any helpful suggestions(links?) ?
if you are doing it between different filesystems, keep in mind that some
do
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> What the OP *will* have a problem with a copying /proc, /dev, /sys
> and
> other virtual filesystems. When I do this trick, I usually dd or tar
> or
> cp -a entire filesystems and then copy / with this trick:
>
> mount -o bind / /some/tmp
On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
>
> 'cp
> -Original Message-
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:48 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
>
>
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Vo
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' for that
On Friday 08 June 2007 18:59, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> You could also pass, '-x' to cp and rsync or '--one-file-system' to tar.
Thanks.
I found good howto [1], chapter #7 describes this problem
[1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/
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best regards,
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > > and approriat
Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> >
> > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp
Hi,
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000
Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment
>
> dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/
"Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b)
a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right?
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>
>> On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
>>> #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
>>> and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on n
On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>This is something I have done several times. This is how I do it.
>Boot the Gentoo CD or some other live CD, Knoppix should work. After
>you get booted up, mount the partitions, old and new, then use this
>command: cp -av /path/to/old /path
On Fri Jun 8 12:09 , Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>The -p option only does something when extracting an archive, so
>that first -p is pointless.
Cool. I thought you were mistaken however, upon consulting the man page, you
are
absolutely correct. Thanks for that.
--James
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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>
> Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where I
> do:
> $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./
> and then extract to the n
On Fri Jun 8 18:25 , Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>
>>
>> Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where
>> I do:
>> $>cd /mnt/oldstuff &&
Am Samstag 09 Juni 2007 02:25 schrieb Albert Hopkins:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
> >
> >
> > Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command
> > where I do: $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cv
On 6/8/07, Aleksey Kunitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
#>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
cp -ax / /mnt/newroot
cp -ax /dev/ /mnt/newroot
Is always works for mine. Second line r
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:52 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000
> Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment
> >
> > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/
>
> "Remote Environment" probably means a) read
On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000
>
> Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment
> >
> > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/
>
> "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mou
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:24:00 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>
> > Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new
> > partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem
> > afterwards.
>
> How do y
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Of course, there's no need to grow the
> filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file
> systems don't usually adapt to partition size.
I am confused as to what you mean here. It is my experience that
resizing a file system that has been dd'ed to a
On Monday 11 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Of course, there's no need to grow the
> > filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file
> > systems don't usually adapt to partition size.
>
> I am confused as to what you mean here. It is my experienc
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:18:27 -0500 Randy Barlow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Of course, there's no need to grow the
> > filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file
> > systems don't usually adapt to partition size.
>
> I am confused as to w
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