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From: Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
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Subject: Re: Transfering linux system to a new hard drive
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hi,
The best way to do this is the following:
create an ext2-filesystem on the enw drive using mke2fs
mount it under say /mnt
then do
find / -mount  | cpio -rp /mnt/

This is going by memroy.
You do best readingthe  find(1) and cpio(1) manpages before proceding.
I used this combination some time ago to move my root-partition around
between 2 places about 5 times in one day ;)

Note that I'm asuming that your old hard-drive contains only a single
partition.
If this is not the case, you probably want to do this for every single
partition you need to copy.
success

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