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Hello All...
It's been a long time that I've been away, but I'm back!
Here's my problem: Debian sarge, kernel 2.4.25 currently rests on a 4 GB hard
drive, is split into 5 linux partitions, / /usr /home /tmp /var. I'm doing
two things at once. I'm going to move each of these partitions to a larger
disk (80 GB), and the filesystem is going to be xfs. The partitions are going
to be the same as the smaller disk. At some point, the larger disk is going
to do everything, and the smaller disk will be reassigned some new duty.
How do I move everything over from each partition on the smaller disk to each
partition on the larger disk?
I've tried various things, such as cp -ax / /mnt/ (for example), and then
reboot, and I'm told that there are some read only stuff that should be
read-write. I can't use dd, since that take the ext2 filesystem on the
smaller disk to the larger disk. I've tried rsync as well, but I don't
understand that enough to actually do it right. I've also had concerns with
mtab, since it doesn't seem to reflect fstab when I boot with the new /.
Also, every bit of advice that I've seen on the net talks about not
copying /proc over to the new device, since...something bad will happen, but
I don't know what. Then I get a message about there being nothing in /proc.
This just tells me that I don't know what I'm doing... ;-)
So...pointers? Answers? Help?
Russell
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Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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