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ramboman

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 35

Repartitioning With Gparted and 'cp' command, anything wrong ?

Recently, I've done fresh install of Arch Linux partitioned this way:

dev/sda1      /boot
dev/sda5      /
dev/sda6      /var
dev/sda7      swap
dev/sda8      /home
dev/sda9      /usr
dev/sda10     /tmp

With many packages added, / became full. I tried Gparted to resize and move the partition that needed to be resized and partitioned. It took up to 11 task Gparted should do and it would take over 12h. I decided to create new logical partitions beside my old partitions, labeled : root_temp, var_temp, home_temp, usr_temp. I used the cp -r ... command to transfer everything from the olds to the new partition. I deleted the old partitions and created new ones, labeled : ROOT, VAR, HOME, USR. I retransfered with cp -r from the temporary partition to the new one. I modified the menu.lst in /boot/grub so the kernel can recognize the root.

Problems:

All the files and folders are converted to root root permissions.
What I learned : Next time, I should use cp -av ...
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=c/cp
to preserve the permissions.

Any other thing's wrong with that technique?
Should I avoid completely the use of cp and wait over 12h?

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Repartitioning With Gparted and 'cp' command, anything wrong ?

Nothing wrong with what you did except as you said, should have preserved permissions.

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