Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 06:15 schrieb Scarletdown:
eventually reselling it. However, the primary hard drive is
starting to develop errors (I'm doing an fsck on it at this
time). After the fsck is done, I plan on eventually swapping
out that drive for a different one. But, I really don't want to
have to go through the Debian install process again. That being
If you plug both the old and the new disk into one system, you can
start a cd-bootable linux system (like knoppix, damn small linux,
etc.). Use that system to create a new file system on the target
disk and copy the complete contents of your old file system onto
the new one.
You can use tar, "cp -a" or maybe "rsync -aH --numeric-ids" for
that. Be sure to exclude the /proc and /sys directories and
create them on the target disk seperately.
Finally reinstall your bootloader on the new disc and you're done.