Migrating drives (quack quack)
Ben Pfaff
pfaffben@msu.edu
12 Nov 2000 15:38:32 -0500
Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> I just got a 40 gig drive for my linux server that is going to replace 2
> one gig drives that currently run it...my question is this: Does anyone
> know an easy way to move everything from those drives to the new drive
> without losing permissions/LILO/or anything else (fstab info) and without
> having to do an assload of reconfig? I guess I could just reinstall the
> distro on the new drive but it would be a pain to get all of my files and
> packages moved over.
"cp -a /mnt1 /mnt2" or "(cd /mnt1; tar cf .) | (cd /mnt2; tar xfp
-)" should do it.