On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:50:22PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it > from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I > can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had > changed. > > Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job? > Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs?
If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old you could
boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd if=/dev/hda
of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be able to boot
directly off of the new drive.
Or you could create new file systems on the new drive then cp -PRp or rsync the
old data to the new drive. In the later case you'd need to reinstall GRUB or
LILO.
Be sure to not erase the old drive until you're sure the data got copied
correctly.
Jonathan Kollasch
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