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On 8/10/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <ce@×××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > * Boot from a live-CD |
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> > * mount old and new drive partitions |
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> > * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied |
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> > * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) |
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> > * Drink coffee :) |
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> The one thing you may have to take care of is grub, since I assume the |
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> /boot directory will be moving to the 40G drive as well. Assuming the |
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> partition containing /boot is /dev/hda1, then the following should |
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> work: |
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> echo "(hd0) /dev/hda" > device.map |
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> grub --device-map=device.map << EOF |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> setup (hd0) |
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> quit |
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> EOF |
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You seem to have read my mind, I was just about to ask about the boot |
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signature and if I should run grub again. Yes, I'm moving the whole |
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partition scheme along with data. |
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Linux "cp" is a powerful command, gotta take a look at its manual. |
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Thanks for the info so far people, I've decided to move my stuff by |
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the morning, I'll post any disaster/sucess reports. |
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