Re: [SLE] moving my current installation

Phil Burness wrote:

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.

Install new harddrive in existing system e.g. as hdb. Then boot up
rescue system or knoppix, mount filesystem(s) from olddisk and newdisk,
and rsync -avL <olddisk> to <newdisk>. (double check those rsync
parms before you hit enter).

Remove old drive, run rescue/knoppix and reinstall grub.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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