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Zespris

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 13

Copying arch from one HD to another

Hi,

I have one question, is it possible to copy all of Arch from one hard drive to another and it will still boot as normal (modifying properly grub)?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

Sure. Just make sure grub and fstab are updated accordingly.

Flasher

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From: Bavaria / Germany

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 126

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

dd ist your friend

man dd

Greetings,

Flasher

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

you could also use rsync to copy the files to the other disk, but dd is imho much easier. update the grub menu.lst and fstab to boot from the root partition and mount everything properly

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

+1 for dd
Works everytime. Copying stuff and then updating grub and fstab is a good option too, lets you use a new filesystem on the new disc without any problems.

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dsr

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 187

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

Just out of curiosity, what are dd's advantages over cp? Does dd preserve something that `cp -a' does not?

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

cp copies files.

dd copies the whole disk, MBR, partition tables and all.

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dsr

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 187

Re: Copying arch from one HD to another

Ah, okay, thanks.