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>>>> I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm |
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>>>> planning on going through the normal installation process except for |
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>>>> copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the |
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>>>> corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch |
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>>>> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc? |
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>>>> - Grant |
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>>> You should take a look at this one: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk |
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>> Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying |
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>> everything from the old drive to the new drive with: |
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>> cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ |
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>> but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII and there is about |
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>> 250GB of data to transfer. The CD spins periodically, the hard disk |
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>> activity light stays lit, and I can hear the old drive working |
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>> periodically, but I'm thinking this is too long. |
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>> Is there something I could have forgotten to do? Is there a way to |
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>> check on the progress? |
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>> - Grant |
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> I switched VTs and used 'du -sh /newdisk' to verify that about 150GB |
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> has been copied. I guess it's just slow. |
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> - Grant |
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All booted into the new hard drive now, thanks a lot for everyone's help. |
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It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've |
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read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. |
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Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? |
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- Grant |
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