Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:18:10 +0400
Roman Khomasuridze <khomasuridze@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll try to move unmounted /dev/sda2 from live-CD, that sounds more
> reasonable to me.
>
>
> thanks a lot for suggestions!!
>
>
>
> Regards
> ------------
> Roman
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan <
> andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Roman Khomasuridze wrote:
> >
> >> Debian is on dev/sda2, i'm moving it to /dev/sda5
> >>
> >> After some research and thinking(!), my plan is to do following steps:
> >>
> >> 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
> >> 2. cp -ax /* /mnt
> >> 3. modify /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
> >> 4. modify /mnt/etc/fstab
> >>
> >
> > For parts 1 and 2, I would boot from a livecd of some kind and do the
> > following:
> >
> > 1. /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5
> > 2. mkdir /mnt/sda5
> > 3. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
> > 4. aptitude install dump
> > 5. cd /mnt/sda5
> > 6. dump 0f - /dev/sda|restore rf -
> > 7. cd
> > 8. umount /mnt/sda5
> >
> > That should copy all the file system over just fine.
> >
> > *NB: make sure that /dev/sda2 is NOT mounted during this process*
> >
> > Using dump for a mounted file system _may_ give issues, but probably only
> > if files are changing on the drive during ay time of the entire process
> > (atime updates might be an issue too) ... hence why NOT mounting the source
> > partition is better and safer.
> >
> > --
It may be too late for you...but I recently had to move 5 partitions on a 30 gig disk to
a 500 gig SATA drive. After Googling until I was almost blind, I decided on using a CloneZilla live disk.
Best decision I ever made. The transfer went flawlessly, even moving Grub for me.
As an aside, I had to move Windows XP on my wifes machine to an identical 500 gig drive. It too went flawlessly,
using a utility provided by Seagate. It was slicker than CloneZilla, but both did the job.
--
Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca>
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