Re: New Hard Drive, System Transfer
From: Arthur Hagen (art_at_broomstick.com)
Date: 08/14/04
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:19:16 -0400
imotgm <imotgm_REMOVE@invalid-yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:41:02 -0400, Arthur Hagen wrote:
>
>> I would recommend against this. That won't copy ACLs or file
>> streams, and will modify the Change timestamp.
>
> I have anywhere from 9 to 12 distros on my main machine, at any given
> time, and move them around from disk to disk, fairly regularly, as the
> need arises, and have never, repeat never, experienced the slightest
> problem using this method.
That doesn't mean that *others* won't have this problem. If, for example,
you have a file server for Windows boxes that uses ACLs (in which case you
would be using XFS -- the only file system that works well with Samba), your
approach would mess the access controls up completely. What would you do
then -- claim that it works for you won't restore his permissions.
>> I'd either use dump/restore (for ext2), xfsdump/xfsrestore (for
>> xfs), or copy using cpio.
>
> You may use whatever pleases you; this is Linux, and you have choices.
This isn't so much about choices as about making as good copies as possible.
The dump/xfsdump utilities, unlike cp -a, preserves the file *and* its
metadata verbatim.
-- *Art
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