[arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

[Will Siddall]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:20, Will Siddall<will.siddall at 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)
>