On 28 May 2014 at 14:36, Timothy Murphy wrote: To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Moving Fedora system to new disk Date sent: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:36:27 +0100 Organization: Trinity College Dublin Send reply to: gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop > to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). > I've partitioned the new disk. > When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one > with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD) > I get a lot of messages of the form > diff: a/bin/acroread: No such file or directory > diff: b/bin/acroread: No such file or directory > > All the messages concern symbolic links. > I see in "man cp" that "cp -a" included > "--no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE" > > Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions? > I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size, > and I was not sure if this would cause problems. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. One issue that you may run into is that the UUID of the disks will not be the same, so without modifying the boot files, the system will not work. Generally, I just clone the old disk to the new disk using a livecd with G4L, which I am the maintaner of, or other ones like clonezilla or G4U. That will give you the same size partitions on the new disk, but you can then use other programs like gparted or LVM utilities to use the extra space. I recently cloned an 80G disk to a 1T disk with no issues, and since the clone process uses dd to copy the raw data, all the links and other issues are not a problem. > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have > a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 15887438.900756 | SETI 26475216.029716 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 25267413.884942 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
