Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Bob Puff@NLE:
> me do this, as my destination is smaller than my source.
Corect, cloning software requires an identical drive.
> Since I only have 350 megs total (a little in /boot, 64 megs of /swap, and
> 300 megs of /), I know this should be possible.
It's easy, if fact :)
> I hooked up my 500 meg drive on the unused secondary IDE port, and used the
> cfdisk program to set up the partitions. Somehow, I managed to mount it
> (probably the wrong way), and copied all data to it. When I tried booting
> it, LILO was messed, so I booted from Floppy. It failed in a kernel panic
> - can't mount root.
Your root partition is in a different physical location now, and the boot
floppy was built for the old one. Pass root=/dev/hd?? (replace the question
marks with the correct device info) at the lilo prompt.
> What is the easiest way to copy the data from a linux hd to another hd,
> when the destination is a different size than the original?
It has been my experience that cpio works wonderfully:
find / -print | cpio -p --preserve-modification-time --make-directories --dot \
/mnt/newdisk
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