Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another

[Scott Barker <scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca>]

The following is probably the easiest, and safest way, to accomplish copying
the files:

cd /
mkdir /newdrive
mount -t ext2 /dev/{device} /newdrive
find . -depth | cpio --pass-through --preserve-modification-time --make-directories --verbose /newdrive

The find is done before any copying takes place, so there won't be anything
copied from /newdrive to /newdrive/newdrive (at least, that's been my
experience).

Then, you'll have to edit /newdrive/etc/fstab to reflect the new partition
scheme that will be used. You should make a boot disk:

dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=16384
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/{device}

This will save any hassle with lilo. Then reboot with the boot disk, edit
/etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo. 

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Scott Barker
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