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On 02/17/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald
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Excellent!....thanks for the info! Getting ready to swap out the drive for this F18 laptop....from 320 GB to 500GB...(was thinking about a 750GB...but it's too much....don't have that much stuff to save!)Am 17.02.2013 20:59, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:On 02/17/2013 03:30 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving me some trouble) to a new disk.[....]I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var.You can do that easily. Prepare your new disk (partition, format), boot from an external medium, e.g. http://www.sysresccd.org , mount the old and the new partitions and do a rsync -avxHSAX /old/ /new This is all you need. Afterwards, you'll have to reinstall GRUB, which you can do this way (assumed /dev/sda1 is yor root partition): mount /dev/sda1 /mnt grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg That's it. Reboot, and you're done. (Did this procedure a lot, and it never failed for me).Just curious, will this apply to moving /_everything _/over from a "smaller" drive to a "bigger" one?.......like....say from a 320GB SATA HDD to a 500GB SATA HDD?....will the OS automatically be able to identify and recognize the free space on the new drive?if you are dealing with rsync you HAVE already partitions where you copy things around - so there is nothing to recognize if wouldn't do this and stick with dd / disk images and use gparted to resize partitions because if i clone machines i want to have all UUID's the same which matters in border cases like diks usgae widget of KDE in case you sync two of your machines regulary and because any LVM/RAID whatever IDs and there configs are 100% sane EGO II |
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