On Monday 06 February 2006 08:23, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:59 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people .....................<snip some>.................................. Then what about /proc ? Does that get copied over? and should it be?
I am only a basic CLI guy.
If anyone has any better solutions I would like to hear them.
A better procedure would be to:
1. boot the a rescue system using either the install CD or DVD 2. create two mount points mkdir /old mkdir /new
Hello Ken, thanks for replying. For my understanding, Please excuse my ignorance. These are not "real" directories, right ? They are in ram disk or something and go away when you close down the system?
3. mount old root and new root mount /dev/hda2 /old mount /dev/hdb2 /new
OK, won't need a password for that right?
4. copy the data from the old disk to the new disk rsync -varpltz /old/ /new/
should do the trick. You always want to copy your system in quite mode (not running) which is what booting to the rescue CD/DVD does. This also takes care of the /proc problem as it should not be copied, only the directory created. /proc is dynamic and should be empty on a system that is not running. You can check this by looking at /old/proc when booted in rescue mode, the only thing on my laptop is proc/bus/usb which is empty. Start up rsync let it copy a few files and stop it and check /new that files/dirs are being created as you expect them to be.
OK, how do I stop and restart rsync, and will it pick up where it left off?, and how would I look at what is there?
If they are then vi /new/etc/fstab and make any necessary changes. The last thing needed is to modify grub on the bootable first disk to add the new disk as a boot option. Also when creating partitions on the new disk create a swap partition just in case the old disk gets completely trashed.
Re: the /swap partition which on the old disk is hda3, should I create it when I format the new hard drive?, before I rsync everything over to the drive? I stated in my message that I was going to format the new drive only, no partitions, rsync doesn't create a real partition right?
Hope this helps. If you have problems let us know what you were doing when the problem occurred, and be very precise with all of the steps/syntax used.
Yes it helps. Sounds a lot less complicated. Bob S.