On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:53:31PM -0600, Matthew Walker wrote: > > The basic idea for any method of doing this short of cloning the drive using > dd or some > similar tool comes down to this:
And dd would be annoying because you would have to then expand the filesystem on the new disk. > 1. Plug in new drive. > 2. Partition and Format as desired. > 3. Mount it to /mnt/whatever, and mount any sub-folders etc > 4. Use rsync or cp -a, or some other method of copying files + permissions to > new drive. > 5. Set up boot records on new drive. > 6. ??? > 7. Profit. It may also involve modifying /etc/fstab. For example, on one system, fstab has the entry: UUID=392aa4ea-7013-40a4-9222-5559362a9fcf /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 Any such UUIDs would need to be updated to match the new partitions. It's really not too much trouble to do. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
