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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.
Here is a simple script that I use to backup my system to another partition. You will need to modify it for you partition information.
#!/bin/sh
ORIG=hda3 BACKUP=hda6
# Create new file system on backup
mke2fs -j /dev/${BACKUP}# Mount the backup file system so we can restore to it
mount /dev/${BACKUP} /mnt/tmp# cd to the backup file system and do a dump and restore
cd /mnt/tmp
dump 0f - /dev/${ORIG} | restore rf -
cd /root# Now we need to fix the fstab on the backup file system sed 's/hda3/hda6/' /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab.tmp mv /tmp/fstab.tmp /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab
# Now lets verify the new fstab by cating it to the screen cat /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab
# Remove restoresymtable rm /mnt/tmp/restoresymtable
# clean /mnt/tmp/tmp rm -rf /mnt/tmp/tmp/*
# unmount the tmp filesystem umount /mnt/tmp
HTH Mike
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