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
