On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at 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 As has been discussed, doing file copies from a running system is not recommended. If by "Live OS" you mean booting the system with a LiveCD, then clonezilla would all of the above. note: target (new) disk >= disk of the old system -- Arun Khan