At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:46:23 +1000,
Paul Robinson wrote:
> What I was planning to do was install the new drives and mount them as /mnt/temp and 
>/mnt/temp2
> for example and then run cp -a / /mnt/temp so as to copy everything form the root 
>structure
> across.. but I got to thinking.. wouldn't it eventually try to copy the /mnt/temp 
>content into
> itself and start a really bad loop? What is the best way to upgrade hard drives in a 
>Linux box?

cp -ax / /mnt/temp

remember to modify lilo.conf and rerun afterwards.

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 - Gus (now booting off hdd, due to multiple instances of the above)
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