Hard Disk upgrade

[William Park]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:58:55AM -0500, Jeremy Baker wrote:
> What is the easiest way to upgrade the hard disk in a linux system to
> a larger one?  If it makes a difference, it is running fedora core 2.
> I was thinking of using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc, but I didn't think
> it would work because hda is 6 GB, and hdc is 15 GB.  I also thought
> of partitioning hdc ahead of time, and dd'ing each partition
> separately.  What about the mbr in this case?

Try something like
    cp -ax / /mnt
or
    (cd /; tar -clf - .) | (cd /mnt; tar -xf -)
Repeat for other filesystems you wish to copy over.

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