Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

From: Luke Anderson (luke_at_skappa55.gotadsl.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:57:28 +0100

    On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:30, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
    > using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
    >
    > The family have 5 accounts.
    >
    > What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using
    > ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data.
    >
    > So, the plan is to install (via the sid installer) Debian on the 120GB
    > drive. I know
    > - to install the current packages I've got I can
    > install them via dpkg --get-selections|--set-selections
    > - use /etc/* file as configuration for new drive
    >
    Yes you seem to have the idea there.
    Don't forget you may have some stuff in /usr/local that you have accumulated.

    > My question is - what is the easiest|best way of copying|moving all
    > the accounts and their data across? Do I simply have to recreate the
    > users on the new drive and then copy across their home drives? Or can
    > I just rely on everything being set up OK if I just copy across
    > /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
    The /etc/passwd /etc/group files contain information on numeric IDs which are
    what is stored in the files.

    I see no reason why copying over the home directories wouldn't work.

    Worse come to worse and it doesn't work, you can always delete and recreate
    the users, with userdel/deluser and useradd/adduser and then recursively set
    the owner of their home directories with:

    cd /home/
    chown -R fred fred
    chown -R jim jim
    chown -R sally sally

    Hope this helps,
      Luke.
    >
    > Thanks in advance
    > Jonathan 

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