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

[Will Siddall]

The hd is ext3, the bigdrive is ntfs

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jan de Groot<jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:23 -0300, Will Siddall wrote:
>> Just so everyone knows what I'm doing, here is what I'm doing:
>> $ls -al ~ | tail -n 5
>> -rw-r--r--   1 myusername users    222118 2008-11-28 10:23
>> untitled.JPG
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 myusername users       172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3
>> drwxr-xr-x   4 myusername users      4096 2008-10-05 22:41 workspace
>> -rw-r--r--   1 myusername users   1041452 2008-11-18 21:29
>> xine-out.wav
>> -rw-r--r--   1 myusername users         0 2009-07-21 21:18 zero.trf
>>
>> $cp -a --preserve=all ~ /media/bigdrive/backups/
>> $ls -al /media/bigdrive/backups | tail -n 5
>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root root    222118 2008-11-28 10:23 untitled.JPG
>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root root       172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3
>> drwxrwxrwx   4 root root      4096 2008-10-05 22:41 workspace
>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root root   1041452 2008-11-18 21:29 xine-out.wav
>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root root         0 2009-07-21 21:18 zero.trf
>>
>> I've been using this stuff enough to know what's in the man pages and
>> how to use google.  No matter what though, the output is the same
>> whether I'm running it from within my Arch install or from a live cd
>> like ubuntu.
>
> What filesystem is the destination? You're aware of the fact that FAT32
> doesn't support permissions and ownership?
>
>