Re: moving to a bigger disk

Hello! On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:26:56PM +0300, Mihai IACOB wrote: >Tony Lambiris wrote: >> its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, >> mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is >> the new disk) and do a: >> cd /src/X; tar cf

Re: moving to a bigger disk

Tony Lambiris wrote: > its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, > mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is > the new disk) and do a: > cd /src/X; tar cf - . | (cd /dst/X; tar xpf - ) > > ive used this before, works great. > a

Re: moving to a bigger disk

Sorry for not searching carefully the archives. I found a thread discussing this situation - the subject is ""Cloning" a hard drive..." from July 24 and 25, 2004. Thanks, Tony, I'll try it in a couple of hours.

Re: moving to a bigger disk

its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is the new disk) and do a: cd /src/X; tar cf - . | (cd /dst/X; tar xpf - ) ive used this before, works great. after that just make sure you insta