On 05Dec2006 10:18, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Then I'll mount the old partitions and run the following command I which | got from an earlier email | http://pj.freefaculty.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view.pl/Linuxtips/CopyEntireFilesystemsExactly | | > cd /oldpart; find . -xdev | cpio -padm /newpart | | Is it really as easy as that to copy everything? Yes. Rsync will do it too, and variations on the above command using tar instead of cpio. But anything that copies every file and directory and preserves all the ownerships and permissions will do. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. - Phillip K. Dick
