Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Chris Berkhout]

I'd also have expected cp -a to work.
Sorry, I can't say what the problem with that is,
but my next try would be rsync.


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Tim Evans <tkevans at tkevans.com> wrote:

> 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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