Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm facing this problem: > > I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger > one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point > permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive > to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, > I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe > I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? > > First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories > I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not > know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, > where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). > > Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? > > Jarry > > -- > _______________________________________________________________ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
