How to copy a Fedora system?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Apr 14 13:55:26 UTC 2006
Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora system
>> to another partition?
>
> Assuming ext2 or ext3, use dump and restore in a pipeline. cd to the
> restore point, dump the raw source device, and pipe that to restore which
> will drop it into the current directory (ie. the destination disk).
>
> Something like this (untested):
>
> cd /mnt/newdisk
> dump 0f /dev/sda1 | restore xf -
Thanks.
This sounds plausible - I'll see if it works.
I did wonder about using dump/restore,
but decided against it as I haven't used dump since the days of minix.
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