I recently had a dying HD and had to move the root partition to a different disk. I used the dump and restore commands like so:
dump -0af - /var |( cd /mnt/var && restore -rf -) This example dumps the data from /var and restores it to /mnt/var where I had the new disk. You have to do this for each mounted partition on the HD (I did it under OpenBSD, I don't think Linux file systems support partitions within disk slices this way). Then since it was the boot drive I bootstrapped it like so: /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot wd0 For completeness, I also edited /etc/fstab to be sure I had the right drives mounting the right stuff.. It all worked rather beautifically. --TimH _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
