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.