Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Francisco J. Tsao Santin]

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.

IMHO, the best choice for these kind of tasks is using bare metal recovery 
with tools like Mondorescue: http://www.mondorescue.org/

You can create with it a liveCD (or a USB bootable image) of the operating 
system filesystems, install the OS in this manner, then recover the user 
data (i.e. /home) using tools like rsync (even tar!) with the appropiate 
options.


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