Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Tim Evans]

On 05/28/2014 09:36 AM, 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?
> I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
> and I was not sure if this would cause problems.


find | cpio pipelines work well here, using cpio in 'pass' mode.  See 
the man page.


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