On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: > Hi All, > > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one > > Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install... > > May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system > > And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so > that i can update later without a hitch. > > Thanks > > Kumar >
if you can fit the old disk and the new disk in the same machine its a doddle. back up! partition the new disk make a file system on the new disk mount the new disk as (say) /newusr copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership and permissions and symlinks rename /usr to /oldusr unmount /newusr and mount it as /usr edit fstab to add the new mount for /usr reboot to chack it all works as expected once you are 100% happy, delete /oldusr to free up some space. > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
