moving to a larger hard drive...

[Kevin Cozens]

Aaron Vegh wrote:
> 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

The one step missing from the above is to update your /etc/fstab file. This 
will be needed since you will be switching from /dev/hda to /dev/sda. You also 
need to keep that in mind when you reinstall your boot loader.

My machine had a 40G drive and I added a 250G drive. I used 'cp -a' when I was 
shuffling the contents of about three partitions back and forth between the 
two drives as I was setting and changing partition sizes. I did this several 
times while I worked out how I wanted to lay out the partitions. The only 
thing I didn't need to do was re-install the boot loader since I kept the 40G 
as the main boot drive.

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