Roman, I did try the tar method with the same results. The only method I could see working would be the dd, but even looking at the mounted iso afterwards, permissions were not set. I should be seeing at least ownership by my username, or 'user #1000' but after copying (and yes, with 'cp -a') it still returns root. Will On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:20, Will Siddall<will.siddall@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey everyone, After several attempts, I'm still back to trying to resolve this. To explain in more detail, I had a 100G hd with a root partition (with my Arch Install), a data partition and a swap. I managed to run dd on both partitions and in the new hd (200G) apply both. But that only worked partially due to the fact that it copied the ratios of file sizes rather than the actual file size... Copying 80G of data from a 30G partition doesn't quite sit well with me. Next step was to mount the iso images and copy the files. That's what I was in the process of doing of my last message and it worked... until I went to restart and update. What I found that was that my permissions and ownership info was not kept. Because of this, as soon as I went to update anything, the installers would run, but just delete the files (it deleted pacman and yaourt so I had to find a way to compile pacman to install again... until it tried to update all of my bin tools... then everything was gone). Now following all of your suggestions, I tried rsync -arpol and a variety of different other settings but it still doesn't keep the permissions. I tried running tar on the partition, still not working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions or know why I'm having this problem? I'm going to try to wipe out the new hard drive and run dd on the whole 100g disk and reapply it to the 200G disk. And by the way, I'm running a ubuntu livecd to run these processes.
Did you try the tar method? Also, when you copy files, did you use cp -a? You can also try partimage which makes copies of partitions. Doing full byte-to-byte copy of HDD and then doing partition/fs resize or creating an additional partition in empty space is my preferred method.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)