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Moving Linux to a larger disk - how?
  • From: "Alan Davies" <staff.asd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:03:35 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <Marcel-1.46-0408190839-0b0XV&d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
OK, I have a new 60GB drive to place on my 20GB Linux box.

Don't get excited - its only IDE.

I thought I would reclaim the 20GB for some lesser role in life.

Is is best to do a re-install and then somehow (how?) move the settings
from the old drive to the new.

-Or- should I format the paritions (how exactly) and then copy (how? if I want to keep
acls etc) data from old to new drive. And do I then need to make it bootable?

(As usual, you will gather from this that my ignorance knows no bounds)

- and BTW - are we going to get a special offer price on SUSE 8.0?


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