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

[David Rosenstrauch]

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.

Maybe you need to run the cp as root in order to be able to set the 
owners/groups/modes properly on the new files?  i.e.:

$ sudo cp -a --preserve=all ~ /media/bigdrive/backups/


HTH,

DR