Connect the new drive in place as the secondary. Boot as normal. Use fdisk as appropriate on the new drive to set up your partitions as you want them. Create file systems on the partitions you have created using whatever file system you are using (eg Ext3). This does not have to be the same as the previous FS you used.
To copy from one place to another (including sub-dirs) you can use find and cpio like this: cd <wherever you are copying _from_ find . -print | cpio -pmudv <wherever you want to put the files> eg: cd /usr find . -print | cpio -pmudv /mnt/newusr To do root, you can use grep in between the commands: cd / find . -print | grep -v newdisk | cpio -pmudv /mnt/newdisk Paul. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:53, 1stFlight wrote: > I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure. > I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this > drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks! > > > Darryl > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
