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 at 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 at 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-to-another/ > > > > > 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. ) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6