rsync clone - ubuntu failure

[Lea Gris]

dave selby a écrit :
> Thank you everyone :)
> 
> Setup mu UUID by referencing https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID
> re-booted & I am now writting this with my OS on my new HDD - how good
> is that :):):)
> 
> OK Question ...
> 
> how reliable is re-sizing partitions with qtparted - ie could you
> clone from a larger to a smaller partition by re-sizing the larger to
> a smaller size, then directly dd'ing it or using partimage ?
> 
> Is this a better way than rsyncing ?

tar cf - /olddisk | ( cd /newdisk; tar xfp -)

If you need to copy files across local disks, this is much faster than 
using cp and mun much faster and less CPU hungry than rsync. Rsync is 
nice across network or where partial content has to be updated at the 
remote side.

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Léa Gris