Re: [Nolug] Cloning hard drives

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 09:35, Scott Harney wrote:
> Craig Jackson <craig.jackson@wild.net> writes:
>
> >
> > 1) Buy Drive Image Pro or Ghost and work through that.
> > 2) Do a minimal install which takes a few minutes, then copy the rest
> > of the files using cp.
>
> actually, tar is a better tool for this:
>
> tar cf . | (cd /wherever/the/other/disk/is/mounted && tar pxf -)

I've had trouble with this, where symlinks on the new disk still
point back to the master disk. /etc/alternatives is the main
culprit, but not the only one.

It only happens when the system is split into multiple partitions,
i.e., /, /boot, /var, /usr, etc.

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