Re: moving partitions to another hard drive
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:07:10PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I couldn't find it in the archives, say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. how would I create a situation where all my data and my swap partition was on hdb instead of hda? ie - so I could take hda out and throw it away? There was just a huge string on this, search for the subject - Copying one hard drive to another I did this recently with no problems. Here is the bare bones of it - Put both drives in and create your partitions on hdb with fdisk or cfdisk. Create your file systems with mkfs.ext2 -c and mkswap -c Mount /dev/hdb1 and copy / on hda over with cp -ax Swap the drives and replace. See the howto at - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
Re: moving partitions to another hard drive
On Tue, 22 May 2001 23:04:49 -0500 ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put both drives in and create your partitions on hdb with fdisk or cfdisk. Create your file systems with mkfs.ext2 -c and mkswap -c Mount /dev/hdb1 and copy / on hda over with cp -ax Swap the drives and replace. See the howto at - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html The Hard-Disk-Upgrade is indeed a very useful document. I would add something to what Renai has written - remember that when you come to reboot your system with the new drive there will be nothing in the master boot record so you will need a floppy boot disk. I have a dos-formatted bootable floppy containing loadlin and an autoexec.bat which reads: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro I like loadlin for bootable floppies because it is so easy to simply change the /dev/hda2 bit to point to any partition. If you don't have DOS on your machine you can even boot with another DOS floppy (like disk one of a DOS install set), run Edit and change the partition reference. There is no messing with LILO. All you need to do is create a bootable DOS floppy, copy loadlin and your current kernel onto it and create autoexec.bat as above. That's it. Once you have managed to boot your new Linux partition you can, of course, re-run LILO and you are back in business. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux
moving partitions to another hard drive
ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I couldn't find it in the archives, say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. how would I create a situation where all my data and my swap partition was on hdb instead of hda? ie - so I could take hda out and throw it away? thanks, Renai
