[CentOS] Re: moving CentOS to a larger disk

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thanks, i like this method i have used it on bsd systems and am glad it 
is viable here.
    I'll check out the tldp howto as well.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: moving CentOS to a larger disk


> --On Monday, April 16, 2007 10:40 AM -0700 Scott Silva 
> <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>
>> You can set up the partitioning on the new drive, and use your favorite
>> poison to copy each partition. You can use rsync, cp -a, or tar,
>> whichever you are comfortable with. If the drives are close in size, you
>> can usually get away with dd, or G4L if you want something more visual.
>
> dump/restore in a pipeline would be my choice, at least if you're copying 
> ext2 or 3 filesystems. You can see an example in old copies of the restore 
> man page:
>
> <http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/restore.8.html>
>
> dump 0f - /usr | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
>
> dump reads through the block device and restore writes through the 
> filesystem. This will preserve holes in sparse files, because the holes 
> can be detected in the raw filesystem format.
>
> When dump is mentioned, someone inevitably mentions that Linus disapproves 
> of dump:
>
> <http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html>
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