On 17/08/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Garry Harthill wrote: > >>I'd suggest making the partition on the new disk the same size or bigger > >>than the old root partition and then using "dd" to copy the actual > >>partition across rather than mounting the filesystem and using a regular > >>copy tool. This will ensure that an exact copy is made. You can then use > >>resize2fs to expand the new root filesystem to fill its partition, and > >>tune2fs to change the filesystem label - otherwise you'll have two > >>filesystems labelled "/", which will confuse the kernel. > > > > > > Is tune2fs nessercery if grub.conf is using "root=/dev/hdc2" and not > > using a label. > > Correct, it wouldn't be necessary. However, if instead of editing your > existing grub.conf entry, you copied it and then edited the copy (so > that old and new were still present), you'd then have a choice of which > root partition to boot using, which might be nice to have if something > prevented the copy from working properly. Since the original entry used > a filesystem label, it would be wise to ensure that there wasn't a > duplicate label around, hence using tune2fs to change the label on the copy. > > > Also if I go with a file copy (cp -a for example) this > > doesn't do anything with the labels so there wouldn't be a problem? Is > > this correct? > > Yes, that's correct. Using dd would be significantly faster though. > > > I'm just trying to cover all bases and understand this a bit better. Sorry :) > > Perfectly understandable. > > Paul. > All done. Thanks for your help. No problems - all went smoothly
