I am planning to replace the small HDD where my / partition and swap partition are located (along with a Win95 FAT-16 partition for Win swap and misc stuff) with a bigger HDD. Here is how I plan to do it. Does anyone see any (hidden) danger here? 1. Tar the / filesystem to my /opt partition on a 2nd HDD. "Mount" shows 49041 blocks used for / and 79838 blocks available on /opt. I will exclude /proc from the tar file. I do not have access to a tape unit. 2. Remove old HDD, install new HDD, set up Linux ext2 partition and Linux swap partition with Linux fdisk. 3. Using boot/rescue disks, untar to the new / partition. Modify fstab to reflect the new partition /dev names where necessary. Add a /proc directory under / with mkdir. 4. Boot Linux with loadlin as usual. Where can I go wrong? TIA, Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>