[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's possible you had a fluke situation. I've done the
> procedure myself many times. Add a new drive, cp -a some
> of the old tree to it, update fstab and run with it. I've
> moved entire systems to new drives that way with no
> problems.
>
> I usually take a running system, partitiona nd format the
> new drive make a temp mount under /mnt and cp -a the data
> over. Remove the old section of tree (leaving a directory
> to mount to), remount the new partion in place and make
> everything permanent in fstab.
This only applies to data partitions. If you move a bootable
partition it will no longer be bootable. You must make the new
partition bootable (For Linux: use chroot from another running linux
to do all 3 of these: alter the device mapping in /etc/fstab and
/etc/lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo. For DOS/Windows: Use the DOS SYS.COM
utility. For NT: Dunno). If you use a Boot Manager (eg xosl
(http://www.xosl.org)) you must also set that up again.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
