new hard disk

bennysp · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

OK, after installing a stage1 and many days of compiling other programs on it, i want to know if there is an easy way to move the files to another harddrive. Same hardware except a different harddrive. Is there any way to do this without recompiling a whole bunch of stuff?

would i just have to change a few configs like grub, fstab ???

thanks
ben

Valhlalla · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

This is not a big drama either way, but are you replacing the HDD alltogether or are you adding the new one in?
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bennysp · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

I will probably replace the hard drive. The only thing I DONT want to have to do is take the time to do all the compiling again. I just got done with openoffice... took a good 6hrs hahaha.

thanks
ben

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:07 am Post subject:

You can pretty much just copy everything over.
Good howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

bennysp · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

Great! I will give that a shot.

Thanks
Ben

david.birch · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 13

you can also use rsync (which is perhaps teh coolest copy thing on earth...),
just partition & mount ur new disk, then use "rsync -a <excludes> / <dest>" to copy, excluding the /proc & wherever you have mounted the new disk... (use --exclude <xx> )

is really easy & fast

ps: you get some error flowing forth when it tries to copy /dev, but don't sweat it, doesn't seem to hurt =)

bennysp · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

Hmmm... rsync eh? I actually use that to "mirror" some websites I use. I really like it as well... may have to give that a shot.

Thanks for the help!

Ben