Copying the system from one HD to another

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

I use partimage for that. It is very simple.

http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/roma/LCG_partimage.html

/Paulo Roma.

On 12/26/06, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>
> redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My FC6 box has an internal 40 Gig ATA hard drive in it. I'd like to
> > upgrade it to an 80 Gig SATA drive. Is there a way to copy the whole
> > system from one to the other so I don't have to reinstall Fedora and
> > reconfigure all my services?
> > Thanks
> > EJ
> >
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> I'd recommend the following, first I'm assuming you are using an
> ext2/ext3 filesystem, if not you'll need to change the copy program.
>
> 1) Make note of how your partitions are created now and what you want to
> increase (don't forget swap!)
> 2) shutdown your system and install the new disk as either the secondary
> on the same bus as your current disk or (preferred) the primary disk on
> the secondary bus.
> 3) reboot your machine, I'd recommend single user mode (add an "s" to
> the boot line at startup)
> 4) optional - verify all partitions are mounted issue a "/bin/mount -a"
> (mount all)
> 5) run /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc (a = primary controller primary disk, b =
> primary controller secondary disk, c = secondary controller primary disk)
> 6) configure your partitions and make sure you set the type (83 = linux,
> 82 = linux swap)
> 7) format your new partitions with "/sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdcX"
> replace X with the partition number (eg /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdc1)
> 8) format your new swap partition with "/sbin/mkswap /dev/hdcX" again
> replace X with the partition number for swap
> 9) mount your new partitions, I recommend the following:
> a) mkdir /mnt/root
> b) mount /dev/sdcX /mnt/root
> c) mkdir /mnt/root/boot
> d) mount /dev/sdcX /mnt/root/boot
> e) mkdir /mnt/root/home
> f) mount /dev/sdcX /mnt/root/home
> ...etc...
>
> 10) copy your partitions - dump/restore works very well - but only on an
> idle filesystem it will cause you grief on an active filesystem (so will
> programs like tar)
> a) dump -0f - /dev/sdaX | (cd /mnt/root; restore -rf -) - where
> /dev/sdaX is the location of your root filesystem
> b) dump -0f - /dev/sdaX | (cd /mnt/root/home; restore -rf - ) - where
> /dev/sdaX is the location of your home filesystem
> ...etc...
>
> 11) Next label your new partitions, otherwise things will break (change
> X to the partition number on the new disk)
> a) /sbin/e2label /dev/sdcX /
> b) /sbin/e2label /dev/sdcX /boot
> c) /sbin/e2label /dev/sdcX /home
> ...etc...
>
> 12) install the boot loader on the new disk use the following command:
> /sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/root --recheck /dev/sdc (if you
> have a separate boot partition use /mnt/root/boot)
> note: grub uses the actual disk name /dev/sdc not a partition! (eg NO
> /dev/sda1)
>
> 13) shutdown the system
> 14) remove the old disk
> 15) install the new disk as primary on the primary controller
> 16) reboot
> 17) you can remove file "restoresymtable" which is left behind in the
> top directory of every filesystem by restore if desired
>
> I don't think I missed anything.
>
> *note: after installing the new disk, do not install both the old and
> new disks at the same time, when the system goes to mount the disks it
> checks the label, and finding 2 disks with the same label name may (ok,
> will always) cause it to mount the wrong disk!!!
>
> good luck..
>
> Jeff
>
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