Re: Best way to migrate disks (SOLVED)

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

On 03/24/12 23:25, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote:
> On 03/25/2012 01:16 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new
> > disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB
> > partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV
> > which I have added to my VG, so I now have plenty of space. So far, so
> > good.
> >
> > My problem is that I am still booting off of the 40GB disk and my /
> > partition has pretty much run out of space (it is about 280MB). I want
> > to migrate everything from there into one of the 500MB partitions on
> > the new drive and boot from there. What is the best way to do this?
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Marc
>
> First, make a backup. Don't modify anything on the old disk, just in the
> new one!!!

Thanks to everyone who replied.  I asked here first to find a 'Debian' 
answer, but I probably should have just Googled it.  I found several 
sites advocating piping the results of find to cpio and this worked 
perfectly.  All I had to do after that was to add a new stanza to 
lilo.conf and update fstab in the new partition, then run lilo.  Works 
like a charm.

Marc