Tar is your friend and ally.<br><br>1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point.<br>2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR</a><br> 3. remove old drive, & configure the new one as your primary. <br>4. get a drink. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mr.jarry@gmail.com">mr.jarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, I'm facing this problem:<br> <br> I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger<br> one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point<br> permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive<br> to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course,<br> I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe<br> I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this?<br> <br> First I thought about "cp -a". But I'm not sure which directories<br> I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not<br> know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target,<br> where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?).<br> <br> Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else?<br> <br> Jarry<br><font color="#888888"> <br> -- <br> _______________________________________________________________<br> This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists!<br> Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.<br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hazen Valliant-Saunders<br>IT/IS Consultant<br>(613) 355-5977<br>