Re: immigrate Debian from an older disk to a newer one?

[Will]

Going out on a limb...I *think* you could theoretically just plug in the drive, edit your etc/fstab and mount it, and then format it to ext3 or XFS, or whatever.  Then you could tar your current system after shutting down the running daemons and just untar it to the new drive.  As for the mbr, no idea.  Someone correct me if I'm completely off.

Of course the best method is to install from scratch.

On 6/21/06, Peter Colton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

        hello Wei,

        Have look at the link below, I have not tryed out this method yet but I will
be in the near future. You could set up a spare machine and install a
standard debina install and use that setup to check things out, ie dummy run.

http://ithacafreesoftware.org/Members/mitch/notebook/clone_partition/view

        all the best but test the method first.

              Regards

                         peter colton


On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:13, Wei Hu wrote:
> I'm planning to replace my older disk (13G) with a larger/newer hard
> disk (750G) and to maintain the machine as it is. what I want are
> replace the old disk with the new disk including the Debian ( 2.6.16)
> operating system and keep all the setups.
>
> Will it wok if I shutdown all daemons, copy all files to the new disk,
> and make sure file permissions remain the same as the old one?
>
> Regards
> Wei


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