Re: New Hard Disk

Mark Neidorff wrote:

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, James Pifer wrote:

I know this topic is discussed a lot and I've googled for a lot of
information. I still wouldn't mind some help, because of information
overload...

I have a system with a 20gig drive. I'd like to move the whole install
to another drive, 120 gig, so I can use the 20 gig drive in another
system. I have the 120 gig drive installed right now as a slave.

Can I?:
1) Create the same partitions on the new drive (boot, /, and swap)
2) boot off Knoppix and mount all the drives, 20 GB and 120 GB
3) use cp and copy the data from the 20 to the 120
4) remove the 20 and make the 120 the primary and only drive
5) reinstall(or restore) grub on the 120

Is there an easier way to do this with both drives in the same machine?

Why not take a look at Mondorescue? I've used it to back up a complete live file system, boot from the created CD, and then restore to a different drive. Mondo will partition the drive for you. In your case, Mondo will give you a chance to set up your own scheme, or it will take the same parititoning scheme that you currently have and allow you to use that exact scheme or make each (new) partition proportionatly larger. For a "simple" program it does a great job!

Mark

Well , mondo is an option.. but if the OP doesnt want to learn a new tool (which is a sad decision) , he can do what he wants... I did it once here.
I booted with one fedora rescue CD , mounted the partitions of the source and destination drives , and copied everything. Then installed grub on the new drive and I was ready... I also took the chance and formatted the new partitions with XFS instead of ext3..

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Pedro Macedo