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Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?



Ron Johnson schreef:
> On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
>>
>> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
>>>  rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
>>
>> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
>>
>> I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you can
>> easily spot aborted transfers by the fact that the original device is
>> not empty afterwards.
> 
> One note is that I've had issues where symlinks remain pointing to the 
> old drive.  (That was a long time ago, though, and maybe I did something
> wrong.)
I thought symlinks keep point via a file location memo, like "look at
/usr/share/the/file/you/want", which is the old location just after
copying, but the new location when you boot from your new device and
that becomes root.

Sjoerd

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