moving to a larger hard drive...

[Simone Richard]

Another possibility is to use tar instead of cp.  I did this when
moving my /home subtree to an already formatted new partition.

# mount <new_partition>
# cd <new_partition>
# tar -cf - /home | tar -xvpf -

Cheers,
Simone


On 12/2/06, Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hey Teddy,
> It simply isn't practical to keep the 30GB around. It's practically
> full now (~5GB left), and I really don't like the idea of having an
> attached external hard drive. I intend to archive recorded video to
> DVD... I don't have even enough room on the current drive to do that!
>
> I've been searching the archives of TLUG correspondence, and found a
> similar topic being discussed. Lennart (who else?) suggested:
>
> ------------snip
> Partition, make filesystems, mount new partition, then cp -ax
> /oldpartition /newpartition
>
> That is the PROPER way to do it, and probably the fastest too since it
> only copies the data.
>
> dd is great for making clones of a disk to another identical disk.
>
> You will have to reinstall the MBR/boot loader on the new disk of
> course.
> -------------snip
>
> Of course. :-) I actually found a resource to explain that too:
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html
>
> Looks trivial enough. So I'm waiting for the cp operation to complete,
> and we'll see if this works out. Fast, it aint...
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron.
>
>
> On 12/2/06, Teddy David Mills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I would leave the 30GB in there for now.
> > When the drive fills up, copy all the data in /myth/tv out to wherever
> > you need.
> >
> > The target could be the 320GB SATA installed locally on the mythtv box.
> > Possibly either on the SATA2 interface, or a Vantec external SATA/USB2 box.
> > I have only 100mbit network cards and 100mbit switch, and I move 100GB
> > of data every few weeks.
> > I enabled samba on mythtv, and just copy all the data out to anything on
> > the network that has the space.
> >
> > I know there are a lot of linux tools out there that do drive imaging,
> > and do proportional copying.
> > That is copy the data to the new drive and make new partitions in
> > propotion to the original drive.
> >
> > However, even if you make the 320GB your primary drive, you will fill
> > that up soon enough and
> > will have to find some space somewhere to put that data.  Make do, until
> > they release the HVD I guess.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Aaron Vegh wrote:
> > > Hi TLUGers,
> > > I've got a mythtv system that had a 30GB drive. Predictably, I have
> > > now purchased a 320GB drive to replace it. Now, given the hassle
> > > involved in getting the system working (and it's just right!), you can
> > > imagine I'd much rather just duplicate the drive onto the larger one.
> > > However, the dd command proved less than useful! It created a
> > > duplicate but seemed to have made my drive 30GB in size. Plus, the
> > > resulting drive wouldn't boot the computer (a problem with Grub,
> > > perhaps? It stalls at a flashing cursor on boot, suggesting it doesn't
> > > see a boot drive).
> > >
> > > Further complicating factors include the fact that the old drive is
> > > IDE, the new drive is SATA2. We're moving from /dev/hda to /dev/sda.
> > >
> > > I've read online that dd will simply replicate the partition, but
> > > there must be a way to move files across such that it'll boot?
> > >
> > > Any advice you can give would be tremendously helpful.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Aaron.
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