Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> 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?

>From the man page,
I see no way to tell cp to copy a symbolic link as a symbolic link.

> I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
> and I was not sure if this would cause problems.

Use dd and resize2fs.
resize2fs defaults to the size of the partition.

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