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[Richard Booth <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Will this work with a resier filesystem?

thanks
Rich

> I'd use cpio in passthrough mode in combination with find, such as:
> 
>  cd /
>  find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot
> 
> It maintains permissions and does error checking etc... Works for
> everything, including /dev /proc! The -xdev stops find traversing
> devices, i.e. the above only copies the root fs, it doesn't do any
> other partitions mounted on /usr... Just do the same for each
> partition.
> 
> With lilo you can do lilo -r /mnt/newroot, no need for a boot floppy!
> The box should then boot from the new disk...
> 
> HTH,
> 
>  Mark