You probably don't want to copy /proc, though.
Make a directory there on the new filesystem, otherwise the kernel won't load.
However, don't copy it from the old system. I did this once and the /proc directory
ended up with >300mb in it!???!
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:50:09PM -0700, Jamie wrote:
> Rob,
> You can do this many ways... Fortunatly you have Linux! You can down the
> system, add the new disk, boot the system, format the new drive (might be a
> good time to try the reiser file system...), now... your ready to put the
> existing system on the new drive. you can do this several ways and probably
> (hopefully ) someone will have an even more fun way..
> If you have a cd-bootable system, you could boot a live filesystem (like
> demolinux, Slack live filesystem cd, or even that ever-handy linux care cd),
> mount your drives (/diskold /disknew) and then do a cp -rp /diskold
> /disknew, then all you have to do is wait for the files to copy, and rdev the
> new /disknew drive.
>
> here are some harder ways to do it, depending on your situation...
>
> To dupe the files from one drive, you can (boot to console mode first...)
> you can use the cp command to copy the files from one disk to another , but
> you need to mount the disk to copy them, and you dont want to copy that dir
> over to itself (or the /proc dir). So... this is sticky... if you do a ls >
> ls.txt, you will have a file with all the directorys, to which you could edit
> and make a script that will cp -rp all the dirs you want, but not the ones
> you dont. Note: cp -rp (recursive, save file ownership/permission).
> But thats really ugly.
> There are utilites for this i belive... What I usually do is tar, but this
> requires you have over 1/2 of the drive free to fit the tar file (then you
> gzip it and copy/transfer it to the new drive, burn to cd, ...).
>
> You could also just make a big ISO of your disk, so... its possible that you
> could make a system that boots to floppy, and uses a isofs for the system...
> then you could make your iso of the existing system, copy it to the new
> drive, boot the system using the new drive and ISO, with the system running
> on the iso image on the new drive, mount the old disk, and copy the files
> directly from old drive to new drive, then just reboot w/o the floppy
>
> Hey... how about doing an NFS mount, and copy the files across a network...
>
> gosh there really is no end to the ways this can be difficult...
>
> Jamie
>
> On Saturday 12 May 2001 08:29 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my workstation at work, I have a hard drive that I am slowly
> > filling up. I have at my disposal another hard drive about twice its
> > size.
> >
> > My question is if I can install the 2nd drive as the new primary drive
> > and do an installation. While I'm in the process of getting all the
> > pieces required for me to work, can I still use the old drive? And
> > boot into the new one if I have time work tweak it, and the old one if
> > I need to get work done?
> >
> > It seems pretty reasonable, but I wanted to make sure before I
> > attempted it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
