Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 22 May 2001 23:04:49 -0500 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put both drives in and create your partitions on hdb with fdisk or > cfdisk. > Create your file systems with "mkfs.ext2 -c" and "mkswap -c" > Mount /dev/hdb1 and copy / on hda over with "cp -ax" > Swap the drives and replace. > >

Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:07:10PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I > couldn't find it in the archives, > > say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. > > say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. > > how would I create

moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-22 Thread Renai LeMay
ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I couldn't find it in the archives, say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. how would I create a situation where all my data and my swap partition was on hdb instead of h