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 Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:00 am Post subject: Move system to another partition |
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Hello sirs,
I have a question that i dont know if it is possible to do. Im gonna buy a new harddisk, and i want to change my current gentoo system that is in my current disk with a partition of 5gb to a partition on the new disk that will have 20gb, whats the easiest way to do this? i want to do the move cause i dont want to loose all that time building all the apps that i currently have.
If anyone has any idea on how can i do this without loosing my system please reply.
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Pedro de Oliveira
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oumpah-pah
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| I guess you just have to copy all the files from your old partition to the new one, change fstab as needed, and reboot on your new parition. Just make sure you preserve your files permissions while copying them (cp -a should do the trick). |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:31 am Post subject: |
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will the /dev directory be ok after that ? that is my problem
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| Yes it will. udev or devfs will take care of populating /dev. You don't need to copy anything from it. |
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dalek
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I have done this several times. Boot the CD. Mount the partitions from your old drive. Make a new directy for you new install. You may have to create some of the directories for it to mount to. Once you get all that done and copied over, chroot in, install the bootloader.
If you need more info, let me know. Pretty basic. Do NOT do this when booted into Gentoo though. It will leave out a few files that are locked, at least it did for me. It would not boot until I did while booted off the CD.
cp -rpv /mnt/gentoo/ /mnt/newgentoo/
That should do it.
Oh, takes a while too. 
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thanks all, at the end of the month ill post how it went
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