Re: [clug-talk] OT: Swopping contents of HD

[Raimundas]

Some remarks on this: 1) Do not try to copy /proc - this is the directory which is being created while the system is runing. Just create it with mkdir proc 2) Do not copy /mnt directory directly - thie way you will get to a closed cyscle - will try to copy thea;ready copied content to itself (e.g. /mnt/<newdisk> to /mnt/<newdisk>/mnt/<newdisk>) - you do not need that for sure. 3) You can ommit copying such directory as /temp and other temporary directories... Why waste time and space - you'll get lots of this temporary stuff later. All the rest will be fine. Jus DO NOT forget to install lilo or grub properly to the disk with the copied content before disconnecting the old disk. Good luck Raymund Dave Lee wrote: Jon Copeland wrote: I have 2 HD's in my PC, one is a 5400rpm drive and the other is a 7200rpm drive, currently the OS is sitting on the 5400rpm drive and i'd like to take advantage of the slight increase in speed that the 7200rpm drive offers. The 7200rpm drive is empty and both HD's are 40Gig's. Whats the best way of transferring *.* from the 5400rpm drive to the 7200rpm drive without this becoming a hassle? if it's a unix os, ensure that the new one is partitioned to taste and fully mounted, and then run # cp -a / /mnt/<<newdrive>> if you're going to do it this way, the only other thing you will need to do is setup the bootloader on the new disk. Dave _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca

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