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On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi, I'm facing this problem: |
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> I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger |
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> one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point |
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> permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive |
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> to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, |
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> I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe |
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> I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? |
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> First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories |
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> I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not |
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> know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, |
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> where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). |
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> Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? |
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I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: |
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You can clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition |
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and boot from it. You can do this while the system is actually running. |
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The new partition can be anything you want (different size, different |
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file system). This usually means: |
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rsync your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc and |
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of course mount points that belong to a different filesystem, /boot or |
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/home for example if you're using dedicated partitions for those). If |
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you mounted your target / as /root/newpart, this is done with: |
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rsync -ax / /root/newpart |
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If this copied directories it shouldn't have (like /sys or /proc), |
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simply delete them again. |
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Then: |
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mkdir /root/newpart/dev |
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mkdir /root/newpart/proc |
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mkdir /root/newpart/sys |
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mknod /root/newpart/dev/console c 5 1 |
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mknod /root/newpart/null c 1 3 |
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touch /root/newpart/dev/.keep |
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touch /root/newpart/proc/.keep |
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touch /root/newpart/sys/.keep |
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Now chroot into it to set up the boot loader (I assume you use Grub): |
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mount -t proc none /root/newpart/proc |
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mount -o bind /dev /root/newpart/dev |
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chroot /root/newpart /bin/bash |
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Now edit /etc/fstab to use the new partition and edit |
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/boot/grub/grub.conf and reinstall grub: |
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grub |
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root (hd0,0) <-- sustitute with what you really have/want |
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setup |
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quit |
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You're ready. Leave the chroot and unmount: |
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exit |
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umount /root/newpart/dev |
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umount /root/newpart/proc |
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If you've set up grub correctly while in the chroot, you can now reboot |
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and the system should come up using the new partition. If you used a |
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different filesystem for the new partition (for example going from ext3 |
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to ext4), make sure your kernel supports the new filesystem. |
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