I did that recently on our server.
1. Partition the new disk as you like....
2. Reboot into single user
3. mount the different partitions of the new hard disk onto a directory in /
e.g. /new-disk
e.g.
/new-disk/boot
/new-disk/home
/new-disk/var
4. then do a cp -a directory by directory from your 'ol filesystem to the
new hard disk's mount point.
e.g.
cp -a /boot /new-disk/boot
cp -a /home /new-disk/home
after you are sure about the copy operation you now need to make the new
hard disk startable for which you can install LILO on the new hard disk
change your lilo.conf in /etc to reflect the destination to be the second
hard disk.
I mean something like
disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x80
boot=/dev/hdd
map=/new-disk/boot/map
install=/new-disk/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout
image=/new-disk/vmlinuz-<your kernel version>
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hd<hdd partition>
This is a lot like what I had on the server when I installed lilo on the new
hdd
do a lilo -v
And you should be on....
don forget to change the lilo.conf back to normal settings once you are on
from the new hard disk.
Hope I am not wrong anywhere and you are not anywhere else on the kbd.... as
this is not a risk free operation.
VaibhaV
----- Original Message -----
From: C. Vasanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:37 PM
Subject: [LIH] Upgrading a hard disk
> Hi folks:
>
> I am rapidly running out of disk space and want to replace a 2 GB with a
10
> GB disk. I have read the mini HOWTO on upgrading a hard disk. The doc
> suggests installing the new disk on the computer which is currently using
> the old disk and using the following comand (/new-disk is where the new
> disk is mounted):
>
> cp -a /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /lib /lost+found /mnt /root /sbin
> /tmp /usr /var /new-disk
>
> I need clarification on whether I could mount the old disk on to a remote
> machine with a bigger disk (the one I want to copy the system onto) and do
> the same.
>
> Vasanth
>
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