Re: (solved) Re: new drive = new install?
* David A. <achoice@gmail.com> 2007-08-29
> > > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to
> > > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive
> > > and "copy everything" from the old one?
> >
> > Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available,
> > one being <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html>.
>
> Something missing in the instructions was that the "-p" flag should be
> used in the "cp"-command to preserve rights.
"-a" implies "-p".
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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
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