Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
This is more rude then that nice 'find' usage, anyway I moved an old
Slackaware from the partition where I originally installed it to another
partition just doing this:
tar -cSpf- . | (cd /mnt/.....; tar -xvSpf-)
Then I replaced two characters in /etc/fstab and everything was working
absolutely fine, so I could LATER decide to remove it from the original
place.
(Actually, I had already splitted before that old Slackware to more then
one partition, with symbolic links for dirs NOT needed BEFORE mounting
takes place during boot, links to dirs in partitions that were not
involved, by the way, so it was all right after the above command just
copied the symbolic links.)
Nicola Bernardelli <nbern@mail.protos.it>
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Brian N. Borg wrote:
> find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount
>
> I have used this under Dgux, Sunos, Solaris and Hpux, and it has
> always worked correctly (although under Sunos and Hpux the switches
> are slightly different). I have used it to move root /usr and
> Oracle database volumes under Solaris. Time stamps, owner,
> group, permissions and hard and symbolic links are preserved.
> Sparse, database files done "grow" either. I have done it so
> often I could do it in my sleep, and probably have.
>
> Ken Gaugler wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I
> > have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so
> > I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one.
> >
> > This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get
> > my system working like I want it; including up to 1.2 level.
> >
> > It seems really impractical to try to "copy" the data from one
> > disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks
> > tend to get lost or messed up.
> >
> > Seems to me the most direct way to move the system is make new boot
> > disks, install a base system from my old CD (1.1), upgrade in place
> > to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files.
> >
> > Anyone have a better idea?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> > Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif.
> > URL: http://www.hybrid.com
> > (personal: "keng at wco dot com" URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng)
> > "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."
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