Tom Strickland wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:51:11AM -0300, Gabriel Sandor wrote:
> > Hello C,
> > Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 11:08:55 PM, you wrote:
> > CN> Hello from the frozen north;
> > CN> I'm planing to upgrade my harddisl from an 8gig to a 20 gig and was
>wondering how to move over
> > CN> to the new drive with little or no pain.
> > CN> I'm running Mandrake 7.2.
> > CN> thanx
> > Well, if you have only Linux, it's easy, the problem is if you have
> > windows also, and how you would configure your partitions.
> > The process of moving Linux from one partition or hd to another is
> > fairly simple:
> > Put your new hd as slave and make all the partitions and format them.
> > Just copy all the tree but /proc and /mnt. Create the directories
> > under /mnt. Then you should edit your /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf to
> > reflect the new location of the partitions.
> > At this point you need a boot disk to boot when you swap the hd's to
> > their final position.
> > When you boot with the diskette, run lilo to remap your boot files and
> > that's all.
>
> I would like to move my /var and /tmp over to new partitions. I tried
> moving /tmp, but ran into permissions problems. What would be the best
> permissions (security-wise) and how should I set them?
> As for /var, I tried copying it over using cp -a or tar, and ran into
> problems with either method on startup. What should I do?
I had to change HDs recently, and was able to simply create
a new directory in the new partition, which I named "new." I used
a cp -Rf /old_dir /new then changed erased the old directory and
and then typed mv /new /old_dir. Naturally, I had a back up.
Alex
