Something else to think about for your backups (you do backup dont you :) is to only backup the config files and data that you can't just get straight back out of a debian package.
Rather than tarball up the whole lot, you can tar up /etc, /boot and /home ... and /var if you've got any databases to worry about. Then use dpkg --get-selections > package.list, and to restore it to a new system use dpkg --set-selections < package.list. Works great as a debian backup mechanism. You could probably do something with "cruft" as well to pick up 'extra' files that are lying around from source installs and the like. Sascha On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:07, Ronald Highet wrote: > I have just purchased a 20gig drive for my laptop and need some info on > how to transfer my Linux partition onto the new drive. > > My current setup is a 8 gig drive with > 4 gig winxp partition > 4 gig debian 3.0 unstable (of course with necessary swap and so on) > > My question is 'is it possible to keep my setup' and just transfer it > all to the new harddrive. It took me bloody ages to get the debian > working correctly as I need all sorts of weird and wonderful kernel > patches and fix it's to get my very strange network card going and the > screen at the correct resolution. >
