Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am migrating off of a 40GIG hda to a new 160GIG sda disk.
> I plan on installing 4.2 from scratch. But after that what
> is the correct way do transfer all the data from hda (home
> partition really) to the new sda home partition?
# mkdir /newhome
# mount /dev/sda1 /newhome (assuming it's sda1)
# cd /home
# find . -mount | cpio -pmdv /newhome
> I presume there is just a couple files in /etc to restore
> also. Like hosts, passwd. Anything else?
_Be_careful_ on blindly copying things from /etc. That's why
I use RCS (ci -l filename) after anytime I edit a file. So I
can do something like this ...
# cd /etc
# find . -mount | grep -i "\,v" | cpio -pmdv /newroot/etc
That copies all version files (,v) to the new /etc. Then I
can run "rcsdiff" to see the differences between the new
files and my original ones (without blowing away the original
ones).
> Other suggestions welcome also. this is my first time
> migrating to a new disk.
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