Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-23 Thread ktb
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

Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
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

moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-22 Thread Renai LeMay
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