Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive

[pixel]

Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > larger one and restore the image to the new drive.
> > > Another program from them called Drive Copy does a similar thing but you
> > > have both the old and the new drive installed and copy from the old to
> > > the
> > > new one.
> > 
> > I'am sure there is an open source solution. Anybody could got a simple way
> > to proceed ?
> > (like cat /dev/hda1 >> /dev/hdb1)
> > 
> 
> 
>   Assuming you have partitioned the new drive with an identical partition,
> several possibilities come to mind.  Assuming hdb1 and a directory named
> copy:
> 
> mount /dev/hdb1 /copy
> copy -p -x / /copy
> 

i don't know any copy... but cp!

and cp -a is better than -p for this task.


cu Pixel.