Howto move Ubuntu . . .

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:21:34PM +0100, Martin Schmitz wrote:
>Rune Maagensen schrieb:
>> maikhai wrote:
>>> I have on HD:
>>> - /dev/hda7 (5GB) installed Ubuntu
>>> - /dev/hda8 (9GB) Empty.
>>> 
>>> Pls show me what command line to :
>>> - move or
>>> - copy or
>> 1. bootup with a knoppix gnoppix or other livecd
>> 2. mount old root (mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/oldroot)
>> 3. make filesystem on newroot) mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda8 (make sure it's the 
>> right partition)
>> 4 mount new root (mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/newroot)
>> 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:
>
>cd /oldroot
>tar cS --atime-preserve -f - . | ( cd /newroot && tar xpS \
>--atime-preserve -f - )

Yes. Copy should be avoided when you're trying to copy a complete
partition this way. Tar is better:
 
 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.3.3

I usually use cpio:

 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.3.5

/M

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