Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:06:53PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a > complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the > details. GNU cp has the "-a" option. I've copied my hd several times now using cp -vax / /

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Pepas
check it http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason.pepas.com - Original Message - From: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:52 PM Subject: Moving to a new hd

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Pepas
i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the details. - Original Message - From: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've done this a few times and it's been a while, but what I recall doing was: 1. mke2fs /dev/hdb1. 2. mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt 3. 'cp -ax' from / to /mnt each of the directories which do not exist on a separate partition. Do not include /proc or /tmp. Use mkdir to create /mnt/proc and /mnt

Moving to a new hd

2001-04-06 Thread Philipp Lehman
A while ago a bought a new IDE hd for one of my Debian boxes, hooked it up as hdb, moved /home, /usr, and /var there, but left the root file system on hda1 (on the old drive). Now I want to get rid of the old hd altogether (it's slow and noisy). So, after performing some extensive surgery on a liv