I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 4623 4865 1951897+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 * 4607 4622 128520 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1 4606 36997663+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot) disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never done a disk migration such as this with Linux. This is a production email firewall/gateway. Thus, I need to have the system down as little as possible to complete this. I know I'll need to enter single user mode to do the work. I'm just not sure what work I need to do in order to properly accomplish this task. So, what's the best method to pull this off, guaranteeing (as best as possible) that all the data made it across the river intact, with an identical partition and directory structure, will identical permissions on all dirs and files, and that will be bootable? If I start up Postfix after the migration to the new disk, and the queue directory/file permissions are incorrect, my mail server would be dead in the water. I've been unable to find a concise how-to via Google so far that gives me the right comfort level on this. I'm sure one of you can point me to a good set of docs. Thanks in advance. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
