On 3/25/2012 2:48 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > As far as the root partition itself, just make a new file system in > the partition you want to be the new boot and use tar to copy the old > root over. Make sure you don't copy anything mounted on root - just > root itself. 'cp -a' worked fine for me the last time I did such a boot/root filesystem migration to a new disk. What advantage does tar have here? -- Stan