Re: Copy entire filesystem

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 adavis@netpci.com wrote:

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 :  My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked
 : directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job
 : successfully.  

Here's how I do it.

mke2fs /dev/[newdevice]
mount /dev/[newdevice] /mnt
cd [root of old fs]
find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt

Now change /etc/fstab to reflect the changes, and reboot.  I use cpio
because it copies device files correctly, preserves permissions
properly, and doesn't do weird things that I don't expect.

You do have to complete this step for each filesystem you wish to move.

Hope that helps,

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