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Re: software raid



Micha Feigin said:

> Read the man page for cp, you'll need the options for preserving file
> attributes, symbolic links and remaining on the same file system.
> I believe tar is more appropriate then cp I think there is some way to
> get it to pipe to the new disk somehow instead of actually taring (you
> basically need some kind of mirroring application).
> You can then run lilo/grub/etc on the new disk to get it up and running.

Top copy from one partition to another do thus:
just mount your raid volume as /mnt/md0 then do
cp -ax / /mnt/md0

This works, I've done it, and booted off a system copied this way.

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