Read the follwoing note: http://sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf
I used this to clone all the partitions on one harddrive and copy them to another, including the boot partition. Easy and it works. Kevin. On Saturday 5 February 2005 20:01, Nick Rout wrote: >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 -- [email protected] mailing list
