Upgrading to a new Hard Drive

[Joseph Kubik]

The best way would be to stick them both in one server, and format the
new drive the way you want it.
THen, use cp to copy from one partition to another.
-Joseph-

On 6/29/05, Jon Thiele <jthiele-bux5bdj6uGJBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I have an old 20MB hard drive running RedHat with 2 partitions.  I'd like to
> move the entire drive and its contents to a new 120MB drive without having
> to re-install all of my apps, databases, files, etc.
> 
> Can I use 'dd' for this - even if the drive parameters are not the same???
> 
> Any suggestions???
> 
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