Messages in this thread | | | From | Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <> | Subject | Re: Moving Linux | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:37:45 +0300 (MSK) |
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> I'd like to move my existing linux system to another partition -- I've got a > disk going bad. > > I've done "cp -rpPd" on all directoried except /proc, /dev, and /home/ftp/dev > > What should I do for these directories? No "cp" options seem feasable.
For similar purposes I use tar. It seems you should run tar to create archive from / and extract on destination file system with preserving permissions.
/proc should be skipped. dev entryes will be created by tar correctly.
You may say from / being root as following:
tar cf - . --exclude proc --exclude mnt | tar xpf - -C mnt
where mnt is a directory on which your new drive is mounted.
Andrey V. Savochkin
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