Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

From: Jonathan Wheelhouse (wheelhouse_at_exemail.com.au)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:21:21 +1000

    Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de> writes:

    > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, 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
    >>
    >> 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.
    > I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new drive,
    > copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the "new"
    > system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy.
    > That is a lot easier then installation from scratch and you can keep
    > everything installed and configured so far.

    This sounds like the least amount of work and still giving a good
    result - I'll give it a go.

    Off to read about chroot .

    Thanks
    Jonathan 

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