RE: [SLE] moving my current installation

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From: Phil Burness [mailto:pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:42 AM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [SLE] moving my current installation

I have a fully up to date v9.3 system on a 40Gb harddrive. I want to
transfer
this installation to a new 160Gb harddrive. I want to remove the old
40Gb
and
trash it. (It's several years old an I want to change it before it
fails).
Question is how do I transfer the system over including grub etc.

Phil

`man dd`

Most likely, you'll end up doing something like this:
- Install the new drive into the box.
- Boot off of the SuSE CD, into rescue mode
- do `dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY` (where /dev/hdX is the current hard
drive, and /dev/hdY is the new drive)
- Use fdisk to extend the partition on the new drive
- Use resize2fs to extend the filesystem to fill the partition

Remove the old drive, and off you go.

YMMV, but this has worked for me many times in the past...

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