Moving a partition

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, Ken Moffat wrote:
>Any opinions on this procedure for moving a linux install
>from one partition (hda1) to another (sda4)?

I generally use cpio for this:

cd /mnt/hda1
find . | cpio -pduma /mnt/sda4

One could probably use ``cp -r --something'' as well, but I have
been using find|cpio for decades on all flavors of *nix without
portability problems.

The rsync program is also good for this sort of thing if one
already has a copy on the destination, and all that's necessary
is to update it to the current state.  I frequently will use the
find|cpio to copy /home to a new partition while the system is
active, then bring it down to single-user and use rsync to make
the new partition current before making the final switch.  This
minimizes down-time if the initial copy takes a long time.

Bill
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