on 12/27/2007 11:05 PM Matthew R. Lee wrote the following: > On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +0000, Stroller wrote: >>> It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` >>> and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it >>> with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem >>> would then need to be resized. But I don't know if this will work, >> It will, I've done it myself. The main disadvantages are that you can >> only resize the last partition,and it is very slow (because dd copies >> every byte of the source drive, not jut the ones in use). Although I have >> used this method, I wouldn't do it again, I'd set up the partitions, >> copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive. > > Right I'm going to do it this way, in the morning, so if I'm wrong please > feel > free to shout at me over night: > 1. make the new partitions and file systems on the new drive /dev/sdb > 2. mount sdb1 (boot) and sdb3 (root) > 3. copy sda1 to sdb1 and sda3 to sdb3 using rsync (I use rsync all the time > to > do backups so I'll stick with what I know) I would install grub on the new drive's MBR, before swapping the drives, so I would not have to boot with live cd. See my 1st mail on this thread. But if you feel more comfortable the other way, do it as you say. :-)
> 4. swap the drives > 5. boot with Live CD > 6. (not sure about this bit) mount the boot partition (will this be sda1 or > sdb1?) and root partition > 7. chroot to the new disk > 8. do env-update and source /etc/profile > 9. install grub (I'm assuming I wont have to change my grub.conf as > everything > is in the same place as before, relatively speaking) > 10. reboot and get on with the rest of my day > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
