> Copying a live drive will be faster if you do this in single user
> mode with as few services running as possible. The more things
> running, the longer it will take. Swap space also plays a part,
> since you will be dd'ing the swap area which is always active
> and changing.
Swap space will only be active if you're swapping/paging.
And you can always say "swapoff -a" just to be sure.
> You should be able to then remove hdb and boot anothe system off
> of it. If you wish to boot this same system with both drives
> installed, you'll have to run lilo to point it to the boot image
> on the second drive.
...or even allow LILO to load the kernel from the old root
device but force it to use the new root with a "root=" parameter
on the kernel boot commandline.
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