Re: Replacing a new HD
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:00, Erik Mathisen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and
> taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I
> want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a
> pretty painless way of doing this?
tar or cpio are the standard tools. I had great grief with soft
links across partitions, though. I.e.
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /
/dev/hda3 /home
If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot
on /dev/hdc2, then symlinks like /vmlinuz which are now
/new/treeroot/vmlinuz still point back to /dev/hda1 instead of
automagically pointing to /dev/hdb1.
Absolute symlinks (like all the stuff in /etc/alternatives) really
fouled up the whole operation...
Maybe if tarring / to tape (excluding /var & /home) then restoring
to the new device would work. The absolute symlinks might still
bollix things up, though.
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