Ripped from the samba list
Ghosting ????
Why, you are useing linux.
Boot your system from cd.
Make the filesystem on the new hd
mke2fs .....
Mount the old and the new hd, eg.:
mkdir /OLD
mkdir /NEW
mount /dev/hda5 /OLD
mount /dev/sda1 /NEW
Change to the old hd
cd /OLD
use tar to archive the old partionion im memory and untar it on the new
hd
with keeping all the flags:
tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /NEW && tar xSpvf - )
Write the boot manager to the new hd.
That's all.
Taken from http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/maddin_kopieren.html
But this is a german source.
resize2fs will not work on ext3
Regards
Joerg Junge
rip end
Tony.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] duplicating hard disk
First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on
the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been
able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.
The problem:
I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running
mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the
existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions
to fill the original disk.
I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using
SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered
/etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot.
BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of
things have errored
Like:
opening emacs I couldn't save back to my emacs preferences because the
.emacs... file had been chmodded as part of the copy process.
or
any number of services failed to shutdown or start despite there being
no failures in the copy process. Again probably down to permissions.
The Question:
How should I migrate partions (/var, /usr, /home) onto the new disk and
grow the remaining ones (/, SWAP).
Thanks in advance.
--
Christopher Joseph
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