On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Hi > > I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) > using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). > > The family have 5 accounts. > > What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using > ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data. > > So, the plan is to install (via the sid installer) Debian on the 120GB > drive. I know > - to install the current packages I've got I can > install them via dpkg --get-selections|--set-selections > - use /etc/* file as configuration for new drive > > My question is - what is the easiest|best way of copying|moving all > the accounts and their data across? Do I simply have to recreate the > users on the new drive and then copy across their home drives? Or can > I just rely on everything being set up OK if I just copy across > /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new drive, copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the "new" system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy. That is a lot easier then installation from scratch and you can keep everything installed and configured so far.
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