Moving Fedora system to new disk
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Wed May 28 13:36:27 UTC 2014
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of messages of the form
diff: a/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
diff: b/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
All the messages concern symbolic links.
I see in "man cp" that "cp -a" included
"--no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE"
Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions?
I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
and I was not sure if this would cause problems.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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