On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 07:17, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Forget cp, it will nearly always choke on some things. To get a > "reliable" copy, that guarentees all permissions, and ownerships will > stay in tact: > > #> cd / > #> find /[old-home] -print | cpio -pdumv /[New-Home] > > Then make the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab, and you're there. > This one has never failed me. > > Ric >
For everything but / cp -ax works .... has for me. But for / I recommend looking at partimage creating the diskettes and using those. You get a clean image that way that is usable. To make it bootable boot from the rescue CD have it mount your linux system then cd /mnt chroot /mnt lilo This will write the mbr needed ... reboot and you're good to go. James > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:28:34PM +0000, Christopher Joseph wrote: > > First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on > > the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been > > able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly. > > > > The problem: > > > > I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running > > mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the > > existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions > > to fill the original disk. > > > > I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using > > SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered > > /etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot. > > > > BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of > > things have errored > > > > Like: > > > > opening emacs I couldn't save back to my emacs preferences because the > > .emacs... file had been chmodded as part of the copy process. > > > > or > > > > any number of services failed to shutdown or start despite there being > > no failures in the copy process. Again probably down to permissions. > > > > > > The Question: > > > > How should I migrate partions (/var, /usr, /home) onto the new disk and > > grow the remaining ones (/, SWAP). > > > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > > Christopher Joseph > > > > ------------------- > > http://www.ideadesigners.com [iseries & web technologies] > > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ICQ: 78019724 > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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