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ux&lx

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Registered: 2008-11-23

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What is the best moving company? ;)

Here's the deal. I would like to buy new (bigger) HDD for my laptop. What i want to do is; move all of the partition from my old disk (/, /home, /boot etc.) to the new disk (i want to avoid plain copying). This ofcourse is not a big problem, but i would like to change partition types from ext3 to ext4. I'm open to suggestions and advices on how should i do this and is ext4 fs secure and stable enough for everyday use. When i create a image of partition with lets say partimage it creates an exact image with partition type and everything so this unfortunately isn't an option. I hope that i will be able to avoid plain copying of the content because i don't have good experience with this method . I guess that's all...:|

P.S.

It's very hard to find >=160 Gb ata disks with 7200 rpm nowadays

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Dieter@be

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

I hope that i will be able to avoid plain copying of the content because i don't have good experience with this method . I guess that's all...:|

You're afraid of learning how to do copying of files?

it's just cp -ax if you don't use extended attributes (if you don't know what that is, you don't use it)

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ux&lx

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

That was not helping it was just plain acting smart. I didn't say that i don't know how to copy files. I said i would like to avoid it because it won't make me a backup at the same time as some other methods can, it is slow and partition clonings and (or) big content movings are usually not done in that manner. But if i don't find another way, ofcourse that i will copy the content to a new disk... So if you are not willing to help or share some advice please don't post a reply.

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shazeal

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

He assumed you had NFI what you were doing since, cp -a is how most people do it. And you have a backup on your old drive... If you want to make things more complex than they need to be go ahead.

ux&lx

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

A backup that uses the whole hdd for something that could be a lot smaller isn't much of a backup i would say.... I know that the way i would like to do it is more complex but i also gain some benefits with it.

tomk

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

Watch your tone guys. This is Newbie Corner, after all.

ux&lx - ext4 will be included in the 2.6.28 kernel release as a stable filesystem. As with previous posters, I don't understand your reluctance to use cp here - it is the most straightforward way of doing what you want. However, you could also use tar to back up and restore your files, or any of the numerous backup apps in the repos and the AUR.

ux&lx

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

Those are great news about ext4 So no one has some other advice except copying?

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moljac024

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

I also don't see what's wrong with copying. You say you want to copy to another drive but not preserve the filesystem?
So cloning wouldn't work, but what's wrong with copying ?

If you want to preserve permissions than just tar it all up and untar it back into the new drive...

Maybe we don't fully understand your situation, so in the future you might want to pay more attention to how informative/descriptive your topic and original post are.

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ux&lx

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Registered: 2008-11-23

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

I never said that somethings wrong with copying!! I just said that would like to avoid it, if possible, because of speed and so on. And i was open to suggestions.

pyther

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

Well copying is going to the be the fastest solution and as far as I know its the only way to copy files from A to B with out involving an extra layer of complexity!

You can make a tar archive using tar cvpf backup.tar /mnt/drive_to_backup, or you can use tar cvpzf backup.tgz /mnt/drive_to_backup to gzip the files in the backup. Then you could burn those files to a dvd if you'd like for backup purposes. After your done doing that you can extract using tar xvf backup.tar/.tgz /path/where/files/should/be/extracted

As for ext4 (using the arch live cd): Take a look Here

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IncredibleLaser

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

Or you could use rsync - that is, if i didn't miss anything here.

fukawi2

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Re: What is the best moving company? ;)

Or you could use rsync - that is, if i didn't miss anything here.

That was going to be my suggestion...

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