Format your new drive, and create the ext2 or whatever Linux fs you want. Next, mount your new drive to /mnt or whatever mount point you want. Then make the following directories. mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/mnt Then cd to the / (main directory), and get a list of all dirs in that directory. Then copy over all of thoes directories from the list to your new drive. However, do not copy lost+found, proc, and mnt directories. For example, assuming you mounted your new drive on /mnt, and you want to copy your var directory to your new drive, you'd do, cp -a /var/ /mnt/ I would not recommend using mv, because programs still running on your system would need the moved dirs. Don't forget to update /mnt/etc/fstab. Then, prepare a loadlin disk to boot your new drive. I recommend loadlin, because this is the easiest way. Once you booted your new drive, look over /etc/lilo.conf to make sure it is ok, then run lilo to install it to the new drive, and reboot. You should be all set. Someone please correct me if I missed something here. Hth. Greg On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:29:31AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I apologize for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get info as soon as > possible; even if somebody has just seen this on one of these lists and > can steer me toward the correct archive it would be appreciated. > My hard drive with linux is failing; I have just obtained a 20gig drive > which will have both my dos and linux on it. All drives--my dying linux > drive, my old and tiny dos drive, and my new drive--are all connected to > the computer. I will have to partition the hard drive, but it is being > recognized correctly in the bios and linux. Eventually, the dying drive > (hda) will be removed as will the dos drive (hdd) and the new drive (hdb) > will become hda. I want to know if there is a way to transfer my linux > from the dying 2.5gig drive to the new 20gig; I am assuming I will first > need to partition the hard drive and the partitioning will probably be > somewhat different from the old drive due to the difference in size. > Sorry for the info repeat to those on blinux. > I know I saw a discussion of just this problem somewhere recently but > haven't been able to locate it. > Also, can I make my partition that will hold dos with linux since I have > no data already onthe hard drive to protect? > thanks. > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
