Excuse the confusion, I wasn't thinking straight. In my examples below, the < and > are not intended to be used in the command - I just meant to highlight the source / destination descriptions.
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:52, Paul Furness wrote: > 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 > -- 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
