-----Original Message----- From: Phil Burness [mailto:pburness@btopenworld.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:42 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] moving my current installation
I have a fully up to date v9.3 system on a 40Gb harddrive. I want to transfer this installation to a new 160Gb harddrive. I want to remove the old 40Gb and trash it. (It's several years old an I want to change it before it fails). Question is how do I transfer the system over including grub etc.
Phil
`man dd` Most likely, you'll end up doing something like this: - Install the new drive into the box. - Boot off of the SuSE CD, into rescue mode - do `dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY` (where /dev/hdX is the current hard drive, and /dev/hdY is the new drive) - Use fdisk to extend the partition on the new drive - Use resize2fs to extend the filesystem to fill the partition Remove the old drive, and off you go. YMMV, but this has worked for me many times in the past... -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com