The problem in your plan is that the "master boot record" will not be copied, and without that, your new disk won't go. You can copy entire partitions in various ways. I know people who say cp with the ARCHIVE option turned on is good enough, but years ago I learned an old cpio trick and it always has worked when I want to copy file for file: http://pj.freefaculty.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view.pl/Linuxtips/WebHome Look 1/2 way down that page. Actually, though, in your situation, here's what I would so. Install the new disk, and make a FRESH install of linux on it. Recently, I've decided I do not care to learn any more about LVM because I have no need of it, so I just go old school and specify partitions. I would specify 500meg for /boot, 3000meg for /, 1500meg for swap, and a big chunk of the rest for /home. After the install is done, then install the old disk in the system, and simply copy from your old /home partition to the new one. But if you like LVM and can understand it, then it would let you resize partitions more easily. I just find it annoying, and other tools I like are incompatible with it. Oh, one other idea is to use g4u (ghost 4 unix) to copy your entire disk into a file, and then use that file to copy the whole disk onto your new system. Then resize partitions with parted. Note, you need to copy the entire disk to get the MBR. You can simply copy partitions with g4u, that works fine. Except for the MBR. pj On 11/26/06, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, I have an old 120GB hard disk, and a much newer, 320GB hard disk. I'd like to migrate my linux (FC5) setup to this newer disk, and also want to enlarge the partitions. This may seem naive but can I.... i) Boot up using the FC5 linux rescue mode ii) Manually partition the new disk, using fdisk iii) Use e2label and set the labels to be the same on the new disk partitions as the old, what is the command to tell me the current labels? iii) Mount both the old and new disks partitions into temporary directories I create iv) Do a 'cp -Rv /old-part/* /new-part/' command? Will that get ALL files, including hidden dot files? v) Edit the new copies, fstab and alter the mount points accordingly, that aren't using labels? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thank You. Hadders -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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