I have RH 8 installation on *one partition* on disk 1. It was suppose to
be a test installation, but now that all is configured, I would like to
move it to another HDD.

I partitioned new HDD as I wanted, and now I am wondering how to copy
entire installation on it.

I Googled for a while and I believe that I found a solution:

After "formating" partitions:

# mke2fs -j /dev/hdfx

I am suppose to:

# shutdown now

and mount /dev/hdfx /mnt/new/x

then:

# cd /var
find . -xdev | cpio -admpv /mnt/new/6

Now that way I can copy /home, /usr and /var. What do I do with / ?

I also need to edit /mnt/new/1/etc/fstab and configure grub.



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"Yvan@office" wrote:
There's no need to shutdown right now, AFAIK.

Same thing for /. Just be sure to exclude /home, /usr, and /var when
copying it.

Yep. That's fairly straightforward to, although I use LILO rather than
Grub.

Have you read the "Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO" from the Linux Documentation
Project? It should cover everything you need to know.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

Yvan@office <nevazeca-invalid@address-a.com>,
In a message on Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:16:32 +0100, wrote :

Y> I have RH 8 installation on *one partition* on disk 1. It was suppose to
Y> be a test installation, but now that all is configured, I would like to
Y> move it to another HDD.
Y>
Y> I partitioned new HDD as I wanted, and now I am wondering how to copy
Y> entire installation on it.
Y>
Y> I Googled for a while and I believe that I found a solution:
Y>
Y> After "formating" partitions:
Y>
Y> # mke2fs -j /dev/hdfx
Y>
Y> I am suppose to:
Y>
Y> # shutdown now
Y>
Y> and mount /dev/hdfx /mnt/new/x
Y>
Y> then:
Y>
Y> # cd /var
Y> find . -xdev | cpio -admpv /mnt/new/6
Y>
Y> Now that way I can copy /home, /usr and /var. What do I do with / ?

*I* would not use cpio, but would use dump & restore. Dump & restore
copies by file system and will only copy one file system at a time and
won't 'wander off' the selected file system.

You would do:

mount /dev/hdfx /mnt/new/

where '/dev/hdfx' is the new root (/) file system, then:

dump -0f - / | (cd /mnt/new/; restore -rf -)

When this finishes, you would do:

mount /dev/hdfy /mnt/new/var

where /dev/hdfy is the /var file system (if /var is not a separate file
system skip this step)

dump -0f - /var | (cd /mnt/new/var; restore -rf -)

repeat for /usr, /home, etc.



Y>
Y> I also need to edit /mnt/new/1/etc/fstab and configure grub.

Right.

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On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:27:39 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote:

Unfortunately, -xdev won't do the exclusion:

This will do it. (This should be all one line; watch out for word
wrap.) Replace FOO with an appropriate cpio command.

find . -path '/home' -prune -o -path '/usr' -prune -o -path '/var' -prune -o -print | FOO

Nedavno Ed Murphy pise:


I did that, then changed /etc/fstab to match new partition setup on new
disk and configured grub. But after reboot:

VFS Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Red Hat nash version 3.4.28 starting
Loading jbd module
Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3 module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
pivot root: pivot_root(sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2 umount
/initrd/proc failed:2
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.

.... and CapsLock and ScrollLock led's start flashing :-(

I checked /dev/hdg1 with e2fsck and it's OK.

What's wrong?


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???????


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