Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?
From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 08/01/04
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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 09:01:43 +0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Silvan wrote:
>On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:21 am, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>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 .
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>I'm not sure why you should need to bother with booting a live CD. I've done
>this lots of times. Put the new drive in, boot the existing installation,
>partition and format the new drive from the existing installation, mount its
>partitions somewhere temporarily, cp -a the stuff over as appropriate, edit
>its bootloader config and fstab as appropriate, chroot into it and
>run /sbin/lilo then reboot, and presto. You only need a rescue CD if you
>screw something up. (Which I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your
>back pocket. :)
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This does not copy any open files properly. Running mysql or postgresql?
Stuffed database.
Single-user mode? maybe okay. Mounted filesystems ro? fine.
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