6 May
2016
6 May
'16
12:41 a.m.
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net 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
As has been discussed, doing file copies from a running system is not recommended.
If by "Live OS" you mean booting the system with a LiveCD, then clonezilla would all of the above.
note: target (new) disk >= disk of the old system
-- Arun Khan