It should work fine. I did that a couple of weeks ago and all was good.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam Dunstan wrote: > i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig > hd. > > i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) > 2 gig swap (/dev/hdb2) > and the rest for / (/dev/hdb3) > > then i'll mount the /dev/hdb3 in /mnt/new and /dev/hdb1 as /mnt/new/boot > > and then cp -a ? all the top level directories except /dev and /proc to > /mnt/new/ ? > > then i'll remove the 3 gig and everything should be sweet. > > i hope... any comments? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
