g wrote: >>>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop >>>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6), >>>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness. > <snip> >> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said. > > to be *terse*: > > read; > man rsync { note -a -u -v options > man mkinitrd > man fstab > man grub.conf { if there was one :) > man chroot > > with /dev/sda5 mounted, 'rsync' / to /mnt/sda6 [or how ever you have it > mounted]. ... So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy / on a running system? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines