Changing HDs

rhraz · 02-25-2004, 02:59 PM

I have Mandrake running on a 13 gig hard drive. I have a 20 gig harddrive that I'd like to move everything over to. Is there an easy way to copy all my data over and make it exactly like my 13gig drive?

Tinkster · 02-25-2004, 03:12 PM

partimage?

You could manually partition the new drive, and use
cp (or tar) to transfer the files, preserving timestamps
and permissions ...
Manually re-creating a swapper

Cheers,
Tink

rhraz · 02-25-2004, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster

You could manually partition the new drive, and use
cp (or tar) to transfer the files, preserving timestamps
and permissions ...
Manually re-creating a swapper

Didn't think about needing to partition it! Can I format and partition it with the drakconfig? Also you said use cp or tar to transfer the files. I've never used these commands before so I'm not sure what you mean there.

Thanks

Tinkster · 02-25-2004, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rhraz
Didn't think about needing to partition it! Can I format and partition it with the drakconfig?

Probably, but I wouldn't know ...

Quote:

Also you said use cp or tar to transfer the files. I've never used these commands before so I'm not sure what you mean there.

Thanks

cp -a <source> <target>
man cp for details ....

Cheers,
Tink