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Re: Moving a linux to a different hard disk



I have a much better suggestion :-)
I just finished moving my partitions about half an hour ago.
There is a software called Partition Magic, (I am sure you heard of it :-).
Partition Magic 4.0, knows not only how to resize partitions, it also knows
how to move/copy them, even between different Hard Drives. And it supports
FAT, FAT32, NTFS,  HPFS, Linux ext2 and Linux Swap.

Ofer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vadim Smelyansky <jim@widenet.co.il>
To: Isaac Aaron <iaaron@usa.net>
Cc: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: יום שני 01 פברואר 1999 15:33
Subject: Re: Moving a linux to a different hard disk


>On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Isaac Aaron wrote:
>
>IA>Suppose I have a linux installated on a computer, and I want to move
>IA>this installation to a defferent hard disk.
>IA>How do I do such a thing?
>IA>
>IA>How can I move entire partitions from one HDD to another?
>IA>Suggestions?
> I did it already 6 times :) each time when I buy new disk
>
>boot from rescue floppy
>-------------------------------------
>mkdir /src
>mkdir /dest
>mount /dev/hd<you old drive> /src
>mount /dev/hd<you new drive> /dest
>cp -a /src/* /dest/
>-------------------------------------
>
>of course if you have more than one partion then mount all partitions in
>appropriate mount points on both HD.
>
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