>> I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm >> planning on going through the normal installation process except for >> copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the >> corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch >> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc? >> >> - Grant >> > You should take a look at this one: > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying everything from the old drive to the new drive with: cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII and there is about 250GB of data to transfer. The CD spins periodically, the hard disk activity light stays lit, and I can hear the old drive working periodically, but I'm thinking this is too long. Is there something I could have forgotten to do? Is there a way to check on the progress? - Grant
