On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:20, Will Siddall<will.siddall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everyone, > After several attempts, I'm still back to trying to resolve this. To > explain in more detail, I had a 100G hd with a root partition (with my > Arch Install), a data partition and a swap. I managed to run dd on > both partitions and in the new hd (200G) apply both. But that only > worked partially due to the fact that it copied the ratios of file > sizes rather than the actual file size... Copying 80G of data from a > 30G partition doesn't quite sit well with me. > Next step was to mount the iso images and copy the files. That's what > I was in the process of doing of my last message and it worked... > until I went to restart and update. What I found that was that my > permissions and ownership info was not kept. Because of this, as soon > as I went to update anything, the installers would run, but just > delete the files (it deleted pacman and yaourt so I had to find a way > to compile pacman to install again... until it tried to update all of > my bin tools... then everything was gone). > Now following all of your suggestions, I tried rsync -arpol and a > variety of different other settings but it still doesn't keep the > permissions. I tried running tar on the partition, still not working. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions or know why I'm having this > problem? I'm going to try to wipe out the new hard drive and run dd > on the whole 100g disk and reapply it to the 200G disk. And by the > way, I'm running a ubuntu livecd to run these processes. Did you try the tar method? Also, when you copy files, did you use cp -a? You can also try partimage which makes copies of partitions. Doing full byte-to-byte copy of HDD and then doing partition/fs resize or creating an additional partition in empty space is my preferred method. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
