On 12/10/2010 07:26 AM, John Mort wrote:
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For steps 1 and 2 I think this is straight forward, but I'm not sure
about step 3. That drive has a 77GB boot partition (sdb1), and a 3GB
extended partition (sdb2) that is used entirely for swap (sdb5)
If I partitioned the 250GB drive into 247GB and 3GB in the same manner,
then just did a "sudo cp -rf / /media/Storage/." and then performed the
cable switches, would the computer boot normally? Or is it more
involved than that?
If your bootloader is on sda (presumably grub) then it should almost be
that easy. The one thing to watch out for is the fact that Ubuntu uses
UUID to mount in /etc/fstab (to deal with accident drive reordering by
the firmware).
You'll have to adjust the UUIDs accordingly. ls /dev/disk/by-uuid will
give you those values and what devices they point to.
-Sean
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