Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

Robert Vangel wrote:
> Darryl Clarke wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should
> > go about "ghosting" my existing linux system.
> >
> > Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so
> > using it is out of the question.
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could transfer my existing
> > setup to the new drive?
> >
> > Old Disk: 8gb /dev/hda
> > New Disk: 80gb /dev/sda (currently plugged into USB2, to be moved to 
> > /dev/hda)
> > Bootloader: Grub
> > Filesystems: ReiserFS
> >
> > Hopefully there's a simple solution ;) Thanks!
>
> have both drives in, boot with rescue cd, then
>
> cp -a /mnt/hda/* /mnt/hda.new/
>
> ?

And along with that...

Once the copy is finished, chroot to /dev/hda.new and run grub-install

I've had to do that quite a few times with no problems

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