Cloning my install to another drive?

[chickengenius]

I made a mistake and installed gentoo on the wrong drive, well I knew what I was doing but the drive is just to slow! I want to clone to another faster drive. Any suggestions?

[tidu]

hi,
make sure both devices are the same size, than you can do:

[stevenaleach]

You can boot into the install CD and copy from there. Here's a rough overview - for more information check here: http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/lfsbackup.txt

create mount points and mount both partitions. for example create a directory /mnt/source and another /mnt/dest mount the current partition you have installed to on /mnt/source and (after creating the appropriate file system on it) mount the new destination on /mnt/dest.

change to the source directory - this will be the root of the partition you are moving.

Now copy to the new partition:

cp -Rav * /mnt/dest

At this point you can chroot into the new partition - just follow the same instructions as you did when installing originally, substituting /mnt/dest for /mnt/gentoo. once in the new chroot environment, edit the fstab (you should just have to change the root from the old partition to the new) and install grub.