On Thursday 28 October 2004 09:17, SnapafunFrank wrote: > I'm late to this thread. Care to list the four commands mentioned? > > -- > Regards > > SnapafunFrank
"mount", ""find", "cpio" and "lilo" :) Here's the howto(sort of) .. I copied the lines from my first mail in this thread: What I would do in a situation like this: 1)Create the needed partitions on the new disk --- let's assume it's /dev/hdb and the partions are similar to /dev/hda ..only bigger, using fdisk or cfdisk....and make those active or bootable that need to be. 2)unmounting all mounted partitions except / from which you're running...Optionally you can do "telinit 1" as su/root which will achieve the same. 3) mount the partitions you want to copy to, on ready made directories in /mnt (i.e. /mnt/disk2, /mnt/disk3, etc..) 4)Then copy all the partitions to hdb going into the toplevel of each partition (excepting /, the root partition) and type (as su/root): find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/diskx (where x is the partition/mount n° needed) 5)Get some coffee as that'll take a while;) 6)reboot using a "liveCD" or "mandrake rescue mode" i.e. run in ram. 7)mount your old root partition (/) as well as your new one some where on /mnt/ (i.e. /mnt/oldroot /mnt/newroot° 8)cd into /mnt/oldroot: cd /mnt/oldroot and repeat the "find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/newroot" (not the quotes and mind the . !) 9)Drink some more coffee and edit /mnt/newroot/etc/lilo.conf and /mnt/newroot/etc/fstab appropiately ...then edit /mnt/oldroot/etc/lilo.conf and add a new entry there called linux-new (or such) pointing to your newroot partition (this way you can back out if something goes wrong!) 10)reboot into your old system (there is a way of running "lilo" on a not running / , but I never looked how) and run "lilo", and reboot again ;( where you now should see "linux-new" as an added option in your lilo bootmenu.....and boot into that. 11) If all goes well you can then remove/delete your old hda partitions physically and from lilo.conf Bear in mind that I myself have never done this with a ntfs or vfat partition so (triple)check those thouroughly before removing/deleting the old stuff!!! -- Good luck, HarM
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