On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:04:47AM +1000, 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?
Don't forget to put a bootloader on your new drive. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
