Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote:
> This command will take care of duplicating everything including device
> files and permissions:
> find <source dir> -mount | cpio -dumpv <target dir>
I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that I want to move my system onto.
(Currently my system lives on a smaller IDE disk)
I created a /boot, a swap and a / partition on /dev/sda:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
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 3 24066 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4 11 64260 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 12 131 963900 83 Linux
I next mkXX'ed them and mounted /boot and / under the two mount
points /mnt/newboot and /mnt/newslash, respectively.
After that, I did the command described above to copy over everything.
Next, I adjusted /mnt/newslash/etc/fstab to reflect the new disk. I
also adjusted lilo.conf accordingly and ran
lilo -C /mnt/newslash/etc/lilo.conf.
Now, I suppose if I boot up next time, this should work just fine,
correct? I can't actually test this right now as I am recompiling a
kernel on a different box that I ssh'ed to from this box... :)
So, does anyone have any suggestions / comments on this topic?
Sven
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