I'll try to move unmounted /dev/sda2 from live-CD, that sounds more reasonable to me.
thanks a lot for suggestions!! Regards ------------ Roman On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > > Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > >> Debian is on dev/sda2, i'm moving it to /dev/sda5 >> >> After some research and thinking(!), my plan is to do following steps: >> >> 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt >> 2. cp -ax /* /mnt >> 3. modify /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst >> 4. modify /mnt/etc/fstab >> > > For parts 1 and 2, I would boot from a livecd of some kind and do the > following: > > 1. /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5 > 2. mkdir /mnt/sda5 > 3. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 > 4. aptitude install dump > 5. cd /mnt/sda5 > 6. dump 0f - /dev/sda|restore rf - > 7. cd > 8. umount /mnt/sda5 > > That should copy all the file system over just fine. > > *NB: make sure that /dev/sda2 is NOT mounted during this process* > > Using dump for a mounted file system _may_ give issues, but probably only > if files are changing on the drive during ay time of the entire process > (atime updates might be an issue too) ... hence why NOT mounting the source > partition is better and safer. > > -- > Kind Regards > AndrewM > > Andrew McGlashan > Broadband Solutions now including VoIP > > Current Land Line No: 03 9912 0504 > Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 > > National No: 1300 85 3804 > > Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd > http://www.affinityvision.co.m.au <http://www.affinityvision.com.au> > http://adsl2choice.net.au > > In Case of Emergency -- http://www.affinityvision.com.au/ice.html >
