g wrote:
>>>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
>>>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
>>>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
> <snip>
>> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.
>
> to be *terse*:
>
> read;
> man rsync { note -a -u -v options
> man mkinitrd
> man fstab
> man grub.conf { if there was one :)
> man chroot
>
> with /dev/sda5 mounted, 'rsync' / to /mnt/sda6 [or how ever you have it
> mounted].
...
So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy /
on a running system?
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