From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nybg5-0003nQ-Ae for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:04:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61D7BE0CD2 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 02:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C856E0ACE for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13941B40B1 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:34:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.98 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.98 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.381, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IngDHuiQR0jo for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B07F676A9 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NybD9-0008UK-Gt for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:34:43 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-177-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.177.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:34:43 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-177-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:34:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:34:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> <20100404210403.7d895c29@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-177-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100404 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <20100404210403.7d895c29@digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 362bc973-aa41-4a34-a4a6-8dafffb4e305 X-Archives-Hash: 8383724b60f5498983fbdd3824d235a4 On 04/04/2010 01:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > >> Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind >> mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. > > Use the -x option with rsync to stop it descending into other filesystems. This is directed to all of you gurus who replied to Meino's post: Meino's unstated assumption is that his new (larger) disk is already formatted (possibly partitioned?) before he copies the existing filesystem to it. IIUC the new disk will then be unbootable until grub or equivalent is installed on the new disk. Does this seem correct, or not? My instinct is to use dd to duplicate the entire old disk to the new (unformatted) disk and then use gparted to twiddle it from there. (But I do love a puzzle ;o)