A while ago a bought a new IDE hd for one of my Debian boxes, hooked it up as hdb, moved /home, /usr, and /var there, but left the root file system on hda1 (on the old drive). Now I want to get rid of the old hd altogether (it's slow and noisy).
So, after performing some extensive surgery on a living Debian system, I managed to repartition hdb from scratch (leaving /dev/hdb1 unused) and got everything set up and working again. But I have yet to move the root filesystem from hda1 to hdb1 and hook up hdb as hda. What's the usual procedure to do that without reinstalling? Some step-by-step instructions would be very much appreciated. What is puzzling me is how to move the specials in /dev/* (I guess cp -a doesn't cut it, does it?) and how do I deal with LILO when exchanging the drives. TIA -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
