check it http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason.pepas.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:52 PM Subject: Moving to a new hd > 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]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
