Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another
Quoting mheyes@lincolnfp.com (mheyes@lincolnfp.com):
> I am trying to do transfer my current install from a smaller drive to a larger
> one. I installed, partitioned and formatted the new drive with the same
> partitions as the smaller one. Then, I copied each partition in turn (/, /root,
> /home, /opt, /var, /usr) to the appropriate partition on the new drive with cp
> -a small-drive-partition /mnt/new-drive-partition.
>
> When I boot (from floppy) to the new drive, I am told that /var/lock,
> /var/run/utmp don't exist. urandom start: fails. Then, when system switches to
> run level 2, syslogd hangs. But, all the /var files and directories did get
> copied.
Did you check that /etc/fstab is appropriate for the new
configuration? It looks as if /var didn't get mounted.
You may need a rescue disk to effect this change.
Cheers,
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