Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Thanasis]

I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same
sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them.
Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces):

mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src

mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst
mount -o bind / /mnt/src && cd / && tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C
/mnt/dst                                         (to copy the / partition)
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dst/boot && cd /boot && tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C
/mnt/dst/boot              (to copy the /boot partition)
 
then install new grub on sdb's MBR:

mount -t proc none /mnt/dst/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dst/dev
chroot /mnt/dst /bin/bash
env-update && source /etc/profile
grub
> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> quit

exit

unmount all previous (the reverse sequence) and shutdown and swap disks :-)

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