Em Ter, 2006-02-28 às 17:26 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: > Fernando Cacciola wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out > > of space. > > What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? > > > > TIA > > > > Fernando Cacciola > > > > > > > > > > create the new bigger partition > then: > cd /<root full partition> > cp -ax * /<root bigger parttition> >
Which will copy only the root partition . Generally I boot from a LiveCD (Kurumim,Knoppix etc.) create the partitions on the new HD with the same size as the original, but located in places where i can easily expand them. I use parted to move them around and create emty space after the partition. I do this with the empty partitions. Then I dd the original to the new one Finally parted again to expand the new one into the free space after it. chroot to the new root and run grub/lilo whatever Michel.