On 20 Feb, Randy Edwards wrote: > I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo. > I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a > different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian. > > I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of using tar. > However, could someone point me in the direction (details would be nice > too:-) of the *best* technique to do this? Thanks in advance. >
This was a debate on the list a while back but since I just cloned my 1.2G onto my new 6.4G I thought I would give you the recipe that worked just great. cd / find . -mount | cpio -dumpv /<mnt-point-of-new-drive> # see man pages # watch a movie Don't forget to rdev the kernel on the new drive to set the boot partition and swap partion(This took me a while to figure out), as well as modify /etc/fstab, yadda , yadda, yadda..... -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
