Rick wrote: > currently, my Linux installation is on an 8GB hard drive. I would like > to put it on a 20GB hard drive. I know how to partition the drive. My > question is simply, once the 20GB drive is ready, can I just do a straight > copy of the existing filesystems to the new drive? Then I would connect > the new drive as /dev/hda. > > Would this work? Or is there something special I have to do?
This answer won't be as helpful as I'd like it to be, but: just copying won't quite work. You need to copy using something that will copy and preserve all the special things like: * hard and soft links * permissions and ownership * hidden files I know this can be done, but don't know the best approach. There may be options for cp that deal with all of this, or maybe dd is a better choice. One approach is to back everything up using tar (again with the right options) and then restore it on your new disk. (You can even create the tar in a partition of the new drive that you (temporarily) create just for this purpose (I think). Randy Kramer
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