[CentOS] Transferring system to new drive
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Fri Sep 17 21:52:25 UTC 2010
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
>
>>> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
>>> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
>
>> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
>> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for all the responses.
Further to my query,
I'm wondering if one can safely copy partitions
(in particular the root partition / )
while the system is running.
The reason that I ask is that I'm slightly afraid
the machine will not re-boot into single-user mode
with the present OS on the sick disk.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
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