How to copy a Fedora system?

[Timothy Murphy]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> So I think the correct command is:
> 
> cd /mnt/newdisk
> dump 0f - /dev/sda1 | restore rf -

Thanks.
I tried this, and the copy is working fine.

Actually, I backed up to several files,
as I have a large IDE disk on my SCSI machine with plenty of space.

Nb My old system is in several partitions;
the new system is in one, except that I am keeping
the old /boot and /home partitions, as well as the swap partition.


dump 0f /alfred/slash.dump /
dump 0f /alfred/usr.dump /usr
... [for several partitions]

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /alfred/slash.dump
cd usr
restore rf /alfred/usr.dump
...

The only issue is that I got thousands of warnings during the restores,
like this:

restore: lsetxattr ./etc/hotplug/pci.agent failed: Operation not supported

I compared the old and new files with "stat" but couldn't see any difference
apart from the inode numbers,
and the system seems to be working fine.
I wonder if this has something to do with selinux
(which I have turned off)?




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