Howto move Ubuntu . . .

[Martin Schmitz]

Martin Schmitz schrieb:
>> 5. copy (cp -a /mnt/oldroot/* /mnt/newroot)
> 
> And your new filesytem will miss the /.dev-directroy. :-( A better way
> to copy a complete Unix-System is to use tar:

Mh, after reading this again, I recognize that /.dev is just the
"normal" /dev-Directory moved out of the way by udev at runtime - so
this is not a problem at all. Anyway, I would prefer tar because it
works on every Unix platform.

Martin