Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
> using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
>
> The family have 5 accounts.
>
> What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using
> ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data.
>
> So, the plan is to install (via the sid installer) Debian on the 120GB
> drive. I know
> - to install the current packages I've got I can
> install them via dpkg --get-selections|--set-selections
> - use /etc/* file as configuration for new drive
>
> My question is - what is the easiest|best way of copying|moving all
> the accounts and their data across? Do I simply have to recreate the
> users on the new drive and then copy across their home drives? Or can
> I just rely on everything being set up OK if I just copy across
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new drive,
copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the "new"
system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy.
That is a lot easier then installation from scratch and you can keep
everything installed and configured so far.
HTH
Sven
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