On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote: > How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving > me some trouble) to a new disk. [....] > I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, > and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var.
You can do that easily. Prepare your new disk (partition, format), boot from an external medium, e.g. http://www.sysresccd.org , mount the old and the new partitions and do a rsync -avxHSAX /old/ /new This is all you need. Afterwards, you'll have to reinstall GRUB, which you can do this way (assumed /dev/sda1 is yor root partition): mount /dev/sda1 /mnt grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg That's it. Reboot, and you're done. (Did this procedure a lot, and it never failed for me). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
