Moving filesystems, any problems?

audibel · 03-19-2005, 08:47 AM

Ok, I can cp -rp my home directory to a different partition and just change the fstab to reflect the change and it works fine, my question is should I be able to do the same thing with the rest of my filesystem without screwing everything up? Because I had Linux 2nd I put it on my 2nd harddrive, but now I have removed Windows XP (yah!) and I would like to transfer my filesystem to hda, possible problems with my method?

rgawenda · 03-19-2005, 09:36 AM

Better use this:

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-a, --archive
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and attributes of the original files in
the copy (but do not preserve directory structure). Equivalent to -dpPR.

audibel · 03-19-2005, 10:15 AM

Yeah I was having problems with -rp so I used -ax and it worked great, thanks!