:rolleyes: Sorry, my bad! :cool: I just watched a Bill Hicks documentary. I've seen the light now. I won't happen again, says goat-boy...

Right... Thats exactally what I was implying. Trying to issuse a:

cp -Rav /* /mnt/backup

is a pointless command that will result in your computer stalling on /proc....

We are discussing section 7 of said howto. Its all there, on one short page.:D I actually used the second method and copied/pasted the script, changing the name of the path to /mnt/new, since I like my mount points all in the same corral. ymmv

Nice.... Never knew about the 'x' switch....

Handy if you have mountpoints for windows or freebsd], or whatever. That way it doesn't recurse through the mount points as well. This has become my favorite HOWTO page (just discovered it a week before I saw Fear58's post) as I hop around and move my files all over the place (and burn the important fun stuff to cd JIC). :D

This is why I persisted with this train of thought. ;) Its a good howto (not all are as good)

Actually, not just the first boot but each boot will, as the proc filesystem is never saved.

Wow, I'm still subbed to this thread? I don't wanna say something mean, but didn't you just restate what you quoted?

Option C...
 

hey, as long as im here, i'll shout out an idea.

Copy the partition over using DD something. Then in Qtparted or some GUI program or such, expand the partition to fit a larger/smaller drive?




Also, could i take a hard drive, and move it from one computer to another completely different computer, ASSUMING that they have the same Arch.?