I have gotten a new, larger harddisk, and wish to use it to expand my existing linux box. I would like to copy the filesystems off the old hard disk, and replace it with this one.
So far I haven't succeeded. I haven't been able to confine tar's action to a single filesystem (so that directories linked to directories on other filesystems, on the other system drive, will not be copied. Included is the linux boot filesystem, /dev/hda2. I basically want the current drive duplicated to the new drive, with larger partitions, and another partition. When I thought I had it right, and edited /etc/fstab using a rescue disk, the disk failed somehow. My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job successfully. I don't want to reinstall debian, since there is so much software on the system that I would have to reinstall. Is there a clean way to do that whole job, though? Thanks again. (By the way, we now have slackware 3.4 running on the gateway 2K 486 machine that was donated to our department. I plan to get this going right, now, and start working on the department LAN. Thanks to list members, six of whom showed strong support within hours of my earlier posting.) Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 96950 15.16oN 145.7oE GMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
