Hello Timothy, On Wed, 04 May 2016 12:38:41 +0200 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recently asked about copying a running system to a new drive. > > As a postscript, I'm wondering if it would have been preferable > to run the machine under a Live OS, and simply copy the root partition > to the new drive? > Eg while running under the LiveOS, > # mkdir /mnt/old /mnt/new > # mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/old > # mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/new > # cp -avx /mnt/old /mnt/new > or > # rsync -ax --progress /mnt/old /mnt/new I personally would not copy FROM or TO running systems. Thus, proceeding to the copy from a third (liveCD or not) system sounds good to me. A bare cp -ax, tar or rsync. Of course, make sure that the target fs is empty before copying (WRT system files). Regards, -- wwp
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