Roman, I did try the tar method with the same results. The only method I could see working would be the dd, but even looking at the mounted iso afterwards, permissions were not set. I should be seeing at least ownership by my username, or 'user #1000' but after copying (and yes, with 'cp -a') it still returns root. Will On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) >
