You might want to look at the
Disk Upgrade mini How-To.
> Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused...
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote:
>
> >I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using
> >cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the partition is large enough to
> >hold all the data), then:
> >
> >mount /dev/hdxx /mnt
> >mkdir /mnt/mnt
> >mkdir /proc/mnt
> >
> >cp -av /bin /mnt
> >cp -av /sbin /mnt
> >cp -av /usr /mnt
> >cp -av /home /mnt
> >cp -av /dev /mnt
>
> Let me get this straight..
>
> I am in the position of having to transfer my entire system to a new
> drive. I will have to mount it initially as hdc.
>
> So I should mke2fs, and create swap, root, usr, and var partitions on
> the new drive (I assume under new names, like /newswap), as:
>
> hdc2 becomes root
> hdc3 becomes swap
> hdc4 becomes usr
> hdc5 becomes var
> hdc6 (maybe) becomes something else
>
> and then (literally) the next commands are:
>
> mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt
> mkdir /mnt/mnt
> mkdir /proc/mnt
>
> cp -av /bin /mnt
> cp -av /sbin /mnt
> cp -av /usr /mnt
> cp -av /home /mnt
> cp -av /dev /mnt
>
> or are you using /mnt to refer to the new mountpoint (is this the right
> name to call it? I'm still pretty new at this), so it should be:
>
> mount /dev/hdc2 /newroot
> mkdir /newroot/mnt
> mkdir /proc/mnt
>
> et cetera...
>
> If I don't want to rename everything /newswap, /newroot, etc. (at least
> permanently), how do I do this? I assume if I move the hard drive to a
> new location, I need to boot from a floppy and rewrite /etc/fstab to
> alter the assignments. Can I do this to rename the partitions?
>
> TIA
>
> Cam
>
> Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych.
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