Thanks Guys, I will think hard and work out what the best method is.. I have a CD with all the updates on it, so I might just tar a few directories and go with that.... if I did go with something like Ghost, then I'd just have to redo all the partition sizes to work with the new drive anyway.. so it might be better to just do a fresh install... I'll see how I go I guess.. Thanks again, rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 5:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lin; Franki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem. > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm > > (three month old) drive,, > > and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also > > upgrading the box to 512mb ram,,,,) > > > > I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend > > needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I > > am rearing to go with the IBM. > > should make a nice combo,,,, > > > > But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can > > avoid it.... > > > > The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ > > /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. > > > > In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives > > onto the new ones,,,,,, > > > > > > Is there anything at all like that for linux? > > > > I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect > > again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it > > perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) > > , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the > > reload.... any ideas? > > > > > > > > any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > > > > > kindest regards > > > > > > Frank Well you can make exact copies with dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc Or you can make some bigger partitions on your new drive and use this on a mounted partition by partition basis cp -a /usr/* /newusr/ Whewre you edit your partition table to include the partitions you have made on your target drive into the table on your current drive (and you make the partitions in the same order if not the same size so that /newusr is hdc8 if /usr is hda8. Once done with that, you put hdc in primary master position, boot from the rescue CD by the usual method, and # mount /dev/hdax /mnt # x is the number of your root partition # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # sync Then hit the reset switch and remove the CD. You will be nbooting in business. Civileme
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