On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:01, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one > > > > Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install... > > > > May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system > > > > And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so > > that i can update later without a hitch. > > > > Thanks > > > > Kumar > > > > if you can fit the old disk and the new disk in the same machine its a > doddle. > > back up! > > partition the new disk > > make a file system on the new disk > > mount the new disk as (say) /newusr > > copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership > and permissions and symlinks > > rename /usr to /oldusr > > unmount /newusr and mount it as /usr > > edit fstab to add the new mount for /usr > > reboot to chack it all works as expected > > once you are 100% happy, delete /oldusr to free up some space.
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