[lug] Migrating an existing installation to a new hard drive

[D. Stimits]

Btw, something that can simplify a clone is to do it while running from
a rescue cd, with the source disk mounted read-only. Trying to clone
from an active disk adds some complications, especially if a journalling
filesystem is involved.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

John Karns wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, BOF said:
> 
> > What would be the best way to move an existing Linux installation as an
> > exact copy to a new hard disk?
> 
> What I usually do in such a case is (as root):
> 
> - mount the destination disk (e.g. at /mnt)
> 
> - mount all the partitions on the destination disk (/mnt/usr, etc.)
> 
> - issue the command (as one long command - it's wrapped here)
> 
> find / \( -path '/proc' -prune -o -path '/mnt' -prune \) -o -print | cpio
> -p -dmuv /mnt
> 
> (using 'V' instead of 'v' as a cpio parm will speed things up slightly, as
> it won't print the filenames but rather a '.' for each
> 
> - after the copy is complete, "cd /mnt; chroot . sbin/lilo"
> 
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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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