On Friday, 06 September 2002 13:58, you wrote:
... i have this HD that is running my suse 7.1 with other things and the HD is 6.1 gigs i have an new HD and it is 40 gigs and what i would like to do is move all that is on the 6.1 to the 40 gig and then remove the 6.1 gigs
Safe: 1) If you have a CD-R or CD-RW drive, try mondo rescue (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) to backup your data to CD. Then, swap drives and restore to the larger drive. Riskier, but quick: 2) If you have some sort of bootable rescue disk (ie. SuSE cd) that has a few simple filesystem tools, then swap drives (make the new drive hda and the old one the slave - hdb), boot up the rescue disk, format the new drive and then do this: $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda? /<mount point of new drive> $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb? /<mount point of old drive> $ cd /<mount point of old drive> $ find . -xdev -depth -print | cpio -padvmB /<mount point of new drive> $ umount <both> Use the SuSE installation CD to boot the installed kernel and re-configure lilo (or any other bootloader you may be using). I've done the "cpio monty" on numerous occations and it's never failed me. Good luck, -jrh