Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 8/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * Boot from a live-CD >> > * mount old and new drive partitions >> > * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied >> > * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) >> > * Drink coffee :) >> >> The one thing you may have to take care of is grub, since I assume the >> /boot directory will be moving to the 40G drive as well. Assuming the >> partition containing /boot is /dev/hda1, then the following should >> work: >> >> echo "(hd0) /dev/hda" > device.map >> grub --device-map=device.map << EOF >> root (hd0,0) >> setup (hd0) >> quit >> EOF > > You seem to have read my mind, I was just about to ask about the boot > signature and if I should run grub again. Yes, I'm moving the whole > partition scheme along with data. > > Linux "cp" is a powerful command, gotta take a look at its manual. > > Thanks for the info so far people, I've decided to move my stuff by > the morning, I'll post any disaster/sucess reports. > Also don't forget to adjust fstab and your kernel line in grub.conf.
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