Re: hdd change

[Patrick M <bono@info.polymtl.ca>]

Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'?

PM, 22

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> 
> Sure, this would be quite easy to do.
> 
> 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb
> 
> 2. Partition the drive the way you want
> 
> 3. Mount the drive up the way it will appear for boot, on say /new
> 
> 4. Run the following command:
> # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new
> 
> 5. Create the proc mount point under /new:  mkdir /new/proc
> 
> That will do an excellent job of duplicating your drive.  Make sure you
> do your bootloader as well, depending on what you use.  You can do other
> excludes on the tar command.  Note the lack of a "/" at the beginning,
> that is on purpose.
> 
> 
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> On 21 Jun 2002, Baan Zoltan wrote:
> 
> > I have a debian box, but i would like to change my hdd to a larger one.
> > Is it possible to copy this debian system to the other hdd, because i
> > don't want to install a new one, and spending so much time to get a
> > configured system like this.
> >
> > Zoltan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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