Off Topic - Moving Linux to a different drive

[Sanjiv Bawa]

Thanks for this post. I have been looking for a way to ghost linux from one
drive to the next.

Will the "new" drive actually boot this way? Does this move the boot sector
etc?

1. Is there a way to do this over the network?
2. Is there a way to do this by actual ghosting? IE a sector by sector copy?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of dieter franzke
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 3:41 PM
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: Off Topic - Moving Linux to a different drive


hi,

Am Sam, 2002-01-26 um 21.23 schrieb djamil:
> how about cp ?
>
> On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 19:38, Ash Ridley wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Sorry to post OT so I'll make it quick.
> >
> > Does anyone know where to get idiot-proof instructions for moving Linux
> > from one drive to another? I've got an installation spanned across 2
> > disks and I've run out of room and want to consolidate both onto a
> > different hard disk and get rid of the original 2.

Boot with the rescue disk.
Make two mountpoints
mkdir /old
mkdir /new

mount old system to /old, new partition to /new
mount /dev/sda..(hd..) /old
mount /dev/sdb..(hd..) /new

please verify that /old is your old root-system and new is empty.
Change to /old.
cd /old

then do a
tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | (cd /new && tar xSpvf - )

In this way all stuff from /old will be transferred to /new. Links and
user- and grouprights will stay unchanged.

You must  change your fstab concerning your new disk. Your LILO.conf
must be changed to.

Boot your system with a bootdisk.
Run lilo.

ciao

dieter

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