Hello Timothy,
On Wed, 04 May 2016 12:38:41 +0200 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
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,