On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:53:42AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Here is an article I wrote about doing this:
http://www.deepsoft.com/2009/01/how-to-transfer-a-linux-system-from-one-disk...
Hoewver, I've heard (though not deeply investigated), that due to various things in the Linux kernel, dump restore isn't the best approach for Linux, and there will be metadata loss.
....If Robert has been doing it successfully, then, chances are he's right. (Perhaps these changes in the Linux kernel are newer than the CentOS kernel.)
I've used dump & restore so many times over the years with Linux systems to believe there is nothing wrong with using dump & restore. Note: dump & restore are only for ext2/ext3. It does not work for riserfs, xfs, etc. I don't know about ext4 (and the problems you've heard about might be related to ext4 or something else).
Thanks much for the quick reply. The things that I would bother moving (vs. a reinstall, for less important things) are all on ext3, so this is VERY handy. (Especially, since as mentioned, it's what I'm used to from the BSDs. )