Need help switching to a different drive

[chris5h]

So I set up archlinux on my Pogoplug V2 on with a 16GB USB flash drive. It works great, I love it. Only issue I have is I use it to download torrents and NZB's. Downloading gigabyte after gigabye then copying it across my network to my PC make me worry about wearing out he flash drive with it's limited number of write cycles.

I got an external USB drive I wanto to get everything switched over to. I found this tutorial:

http://archlinuxarm.org/support/guides/ ... stallation

But I remember when setting this up originally I had to use EXT2 not EXT3:

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... 2-pinkgray
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')Can I use ext3/4?
U-Boot only supports booting from ext2 drives. Booting from ext3/4 drives is unstable and is not recommended. But, if you know what you're doing, you can make an ext2 /boot partition as sda1 and partition the rest as ext3/4. Make sure to edit /etc/fstab too!

[WarheadsSE]

Fire up a linux livecd or a VM, attach both drives, and copy from one to the other via `cp -ar` at the terminal as root. Instant duplicate.

The answer is, btw, that you can use ext3 rootfs because it can be loaded as ext2.

[chris5h]

Thank you very much WarheadsSE. It worked perfectly. I appreciate your input very much. I used VMWarePlayer and Puppy Linux (since its so small and was the quickest to download).