Re: Moving the filesystem
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:12:15 -0600 (EST), Steve Beitzel wrote:
> I recently bought a SCSI Hard Drive (thanks much to all who gave
>me recommendations -- I'm glad I didn't waste the $$ on a U2W), and I was
>wondering the best way to go about moving my entire filesystem to the new
>drive. I have my whole filesystem on one partition, /dev/hda1.
This is relatively simple.
- Partition the new hard drive (fdisk or cfdisk),
- make the filesystems ("mkfs -t ext2" AKA "mke2fs") on your new hard drive,
- mount your new root filesystem to /newdisk,
- then "cp -ax / /newdisk".
- After that, edit /newdisk/etc/lilo.conf to reflect the future position of
LILO and your root filesystem,
- edit /newdisk/etc/fstab to also reflect your future root filesystem,
- invoke LILO using the NEW config file, and you should be done.
You might have to include a LILO line to tell LILO the correct sequence of your
hard drive (as the bios sees it), like follows:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
Bios device code "0x80" means first hard drive (i.e. the one you boot from,)
0x81 means second one, 82 means third one, etc.
Good luck.
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