Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

["Kevin Cobb" <kcobb@east.delfin.com>]

One of the newgroups I read contained the following, does anyone know if
this works with 2.1.  I believe it was for potato but being a very new linux
person, I couldn't tell you the differences.
 "install new hd in the system
  1.. 2. partition it and mke2fs
  2.. 3. mount it to /mnt
  3.. 4. execute "find / -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt"
  4.. 5. repeat 2,3,4 for any other partition you want to copy - say if you
have separate /var /home ...
  5.. 6. make rescue/root disks from .bin files. Note that if you use modern
e2fs tools they would create ext2 with sparse superblock on and you will not
be able to use slink rescue. I used potato rescue...
  6.. 7. put new disk into permanent position
  7.. 8. reboot, load with rescue disk and tell where the root is: "rescue
root=/dev/hda1" for example
  8.. 9. edit /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo
10. remove floppy and reboot - you should be able to boot from new HD now
good luck OK PS: backup !!! "

As a serious newbie, where can I find documentation or something on mke2fs,
e2fs, etc?   Also, being this box was up prior to my arrival, and those that
build are now gone, can you create a rescue disk to do the above from the
command line?
I'm sorry for the fledgling questions, I'm an MS guy who's trying to cross
over.

Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "servicom" <jason_quigley@non-hp-ireland-om1.om.hp.com>
To: "Kevin Cobb" <kcobb@east.delfin.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?


>
> You could also instead of using tar, which will create a large backup
file,
> just use cp -Rdp /old /new
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
> > From: Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:10:09 +0200
> > To: Kevin Cobb <kcobb@east.delfin.com>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Resent-Date: 12 Jun 2000 13:10:59 -0000
> >
> >> Kevin Cobb wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the Linux
> >> 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then come up on
> >> drive 2?
> >
> > How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting
> > the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and then issuing as
> > root:
> > % cd /old
> > % tar cvf /new/backup.tar *
> > % cd /new
> > % tar xvf backup.tar
> >
> > IIRC that should preserve file ownerships, file permissions, and
> > symlinks ... but than again, I've never done it myself.
> >
> > MfG Viktor
> > --
> > Viktor Rosenfeld
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> > or:             mailto:rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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> >
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