At 01:40 PM 06/29/01, David Paik wrote:
>Whats the easiest and safest way to move a linux install from a 6 gig drive
>to a 20 gig drive enlarging the / and /home dirs and making it bootable?
Maybe not the easiest, but safe and my personal favorite: Do a fresh
install on the new drive, using a newer release of course, and use tar or
cpio, or simply "cp -a" to copy your old /home to it's new one and any
config files you can't live with out to a backup location (you may not want
to just cp configs from older wares). Heck, if you are going to retire the
6 gig drive, you may want to cp the rest of the drive to a backup directory
on the new one, in case you need something later, it can always be removed
at a later date. Othewise leave it intact and just leave it mounted some
place on the new drive.
If you have a large user database you can take the old /etc/passwd group
and shadow files, remove the lines up to your first "real" user or group,
probably user 501 if an MDK7-8 install and just cat the remaining lines to
the new files ( "cat /old/etc/passwd>>/etc/passwd" don't forget the
two >>'s for append to instead of replace). Make sure to change
/etc/shadow back to 0400 when done.
Try doing that in Windoze. :)
Scott.
