Try to mount new hd under /media/newhd
tar --exclude media/newhd/\* --exclude proc/\* --exclude dev/\*
--exclude sys/\* -pcf - ./ | tar -pxvf - -C /media/newhd/
cu Joe
On 10/09/2009 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding
> boot,
> swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard
> drive, if the new drive is smaller?
>
> If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly
> straightforward way.
>
Yes and no. dd copies *everything*, including the filesystem superblock,
so the larger drive will still think it's the size of the smaller one.
poc