[linux-help] Re: Copying files

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Partitions?  Cant be copied because of the physical differences in the
drives. (unless you want to throw away a large part of the new drive)

Create the new partitions on the new drive, format them, then use tar to
copy the files from each partition   Use the man pages on tar to be sure you
have exactly what you want for each batch of files.

You will need to rerun lilo as well as copying all the files so it installs
the boot sector on the new drive.


----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Klee <drwho@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:19 AM
Subject: [linux-help] Copying files


> Hi,
>     I was wondering, I have a 1 gig hard disk, and I am upgrading to a
> 40 gig hard disk.  I want to somehow copy ALL files and partitions to
> the new drive without messing up my linux configuration and having to
> re-install Linux.  I know it has something to do with tarring files and
> then cp'ing them.  I am just unsure.
> if someone can point me to the HOW-TO because I didn't see one on
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/ maybe I am overlooking :-D
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Patrick "TuPat" Klee
> http://www.geocities.com/mykros78
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> UNIX command prompt."
>
>
>
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