David C. Rankin wrote:
Forget rsync, 'dd' is your friend here. The replacement can be as simple as hooking your new drive up and doing "dd old new", remove old, reboot, done! We'll call the new drive /dev/sdb for this example and /dev/sda the old, then just hook your new driver up, then:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
David, that way Bob will end up with an exact copy of his old 8Gb drive, which is (probably) good/useful, but he'll also have no use for the remaining gigabytes - the new drive is likely to be 160G or bigger. I think the process is more likely to be like this: Remove old harddive, install new harddrive, create partition(s) and filesystem(s), mount desired filesystem in desired place, rsync back content from external backup. If the old drive was the boot drive, rerun grub or lilo. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org