[LUNI] Migrating to new hard drive?

[matt at abernackie.com]

eeerk... forgot to mention that you have to partition the drive first... of course
I was assuming that was general knowledge :).

matt


On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:18:46PM +0000, Noesis wrote:
> cp -aprv <old> <new>
> 
> I will explain..  Nothing special there, as you can see.  The magic option 
> is '-p' which is used to keep the existing permissions, ownership and 
> timestamp of what you are copying. -r compies the directories and 
> subdirectories, -a retain archival attributes and as much of the structure 
> as it can and -v gives you a print out to see how far the copy is going 
> along.  You can leave -v out if you want things to be quiet.  Another 
> option would be to run it in the background (&) because depending on the 
> computer you are using and the amount of data being copied it might take a 
> while.
> 
> Kind Regards,
>   -Noesis
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:04:27AM -0500, Mark Martin wrote:
> > Also, see the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO from the Linux Documentation 
> > project.  This mini-HOWTO indicates that there may be a bug in tar that 
> > prevents you from using tar for this purpose but unfortunately does not 
> > provide any information on the nature of the bug.  I have used "cp -a" as 
> > described in this HOWTO to copy a large number of systems to new hard drives 
> > without incident.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > On Saturday 17 August 2002 23:24, gs-list wrote:
> > > I'd like to add another hard drive to my SuSE 6.4 Mailserver.  Last time I
> > > mv'd everything, all of the file permissions got all botched up.
> > >
> > > How do I move files in one directory to another without modifying the owner
> > > and file permission data?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gregg
> > > gs-list at glsrms.com
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