Kai Brust schreef:

> Bob Someguy <bob@someguy.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to move Slackware from a 40GB harddrive to a 60GB. Is there a way
>> to copy the whole partition including the MBR? I remember seeing a way to
>> do it a while back, but forgot where it was anymore.
>>
>> Selex
>
>
> Just use "cp -a" from outside the system (a live-cd for example). There
> is no need for copying the MBR too. You have to modify /etc/fstab and
> lilo.conf anyway, so you can chroot afterwards into you new system and
> run /sbin/lilo. If chroot doesn't work for you, boot the system with the
> install cd (follow the instructions at the boot prompt) to run lilo.
>
>

Using "cp -a" will do fine, if you take a few precautions

* Boot from the Slackware install CD2;
* Create partitions on the new disk like you have them on the old disk
(only a little bigger, let them fill up the wole disk)
* Create two mountpoints for the two harddisks, like
"mkdir -p /disks/old; mkdir -p /disks/new"
and mount the two hard disks' partitions under these directories (for
simplicity i am assuming you've only got one partition per drive, if
not repeat the procedure for each partition)
* Check the contents below the "/disks/old" mountpoint and if you see
a "proc" or "lost+found" directory below, you should /not/ copy them over!
* Run something like:
"cd /disks/old; for i in bin boot home ; do cp -a $i /disks/new/ ;
done" where the "bin boot home" bit should reflect what you saw under
/disks/old ... excluding any proc and lost+found directories.
* After copying, remove the old disk, boot from the boot CD again and
take note of the option to boot the linux on your harddisk instead of
the linux on the cd
* Once you booted up and logged on, run "lilo", remove CD, and reboot
again - done!

Cheers, Eric