Re: reorganizing disks
Hi Sven,
Allmost right, you can us dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda but add the right
partition number to it. so it would become dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/sda1. But
I don't know if the kernel will like it to be moved around from ide to
scsi. It should be compiled to work before moving it. Besides you'll have to
change all your configuration to run from /hda/sda1. Especially the
/etc/lilo.conf will have to be changed and rerun from the scsi disk. also
the /etc/fstab will have to be editted to get your swap to work. And check
the rest of /etc/* for more configuration files that have to be changed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Burgener" <svenb@bluewin.ch>
To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:54 AM
Subject: reorganizing disks
Hello Debians
I want to move a whole debian install from one disk onto another. The second
(new disk) is larger than the one debian is on right now:
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 8001 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2 7 48195 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 8 131 996030 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 51 sectors, 1010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 816 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 48 19558+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 49 192 58752 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 193 1010 333744 83 Linux
The SCSI disk is where I want to "move" debian. Is it correct that I can do
that simply with the following:
# dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda
My questions are as follows:
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Is that really all and is it possible?
Will I then be able to create more partitions on the new disk for the space
that is left?
How much adjusting will need to be done for the "new" debian to boot up
fine? (/etc/fstab and/or what?)
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