Hi Sven, Allmost right, you can us dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda but add the right partition number to it. so it would become dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/sda1. But I don't know if the kernel will like it to be moved around from ide to scsi. It should be compiled to work before moving it. Besides you'll have to change all your configuration to run from /hda/sda1. Especially the /etc/lilo.conf will have to be changed and rerun from the scsi disk. also the /etc/fstab will have to be editted to get your swap to work. And check the rest of /etc/* for more configuration files that have to be changed.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:54 AM Subject: reorganizing disks Hello Debians I want to move a whole debian install from one disk onto another. The second (new disk) is larger than the one debian is on right now: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1 8001 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2 7 48195 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 8 131 996030 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 51 sectors, 1010 cylinders Units = cylinders of 816 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 48 19558+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 49 192 58752 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 193 1010 333744 83 Linux The SCSI disk is where I want to "move" debian. Is it correct that I can do that simply with the following: # dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda My questions are as follows: ---------------------------- Is that really all and is it possible? Will I then be able to create more partitions on the new disk for the space that is left? How much adjusting will need to be done for the "new" debian to boot up fine? (/etc/fstab and/or what?)
