New Hard Drive

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:14:31 +0930
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> If you do a "cp" copy, be sure to copy contexts, permissions, and
> ownership.

One of the simplest ways to deal with this, especially if you have multiple
users and the like, and assuming that you have sufficient free disk space, is
to use tar to archive what you want, then copy that and un-tar it on the
destination.

I did that just the other day when I was moving an application server to a new
machine.  Everything that I wanted to keep was in /opt and /home so I tarred up
the whole works and copied it over and blammo!  Done deal, and back in service.

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