> Kevin Cobb wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the Linux > 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then come up on > drive 2?
How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and then issuing as root: % cd /old % tar cvf /new/backup.tar * % cd /new % tar xvf backup.tar IIRC that should preserve file ownerships, file permissions, and symlinks ... but than again, I've never done it myself. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/