On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 14:13 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Well, the hard drive in my personal desktop machine has been running > virtually continuously for 7 years, and I'm gettin' nervous. So, time to > transfer Wheezy to a new, bigger drive; something I've never done before. > I've always clean installed. So, here's what I plan with a few questions. > Opinions and suggestions appreciated before I take the leap. > > I'll be using a gparted LiveCD and rsync for the transfers. Everything done > as root, of course. There are other OSes on the old drive, but I won't be > transferring them. The old drive will be removed after Wheezy is > transferred, static bagged and stored in a drawer just in case. > > 1. Partition and format new 500GB SATA III drive. No LVM, RAID or GPT. [Note > i] > > 2. Is 'rsync -axH <mount point source partition> <mount point destination > partition>' sufficient to copy ALL files with permissions, etc? > > 3. Move the old grub.cfg out of the new /boot/grub/. > > 4. Ditto for old device.map.[Note ii] > > 5. Shutdown, remove old drive, reboot with LiveCD. > > 6. Chroot to new drive / partition: chroot <mount point / partition> > > 7. Create new grub.cfg: 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' > > 8. Install grub on new drive's MBR: 'grub-install <new drive's system name, > probably /dev/sda>' > > 9. Shutdown, reboot without LiveCD. See if it took. > > 10. Troubleshoot, if it didn't. > > > So, any glaring errors? Any better (read easier) ways to do this? > > Thanks. > > Patrick > > > > i. The new drive will be partitioned, thusly: / on 1st Primary; /home on > Second Primary; swap on Third Primary; Primary 4 Extended for future use. > > ii. Read that grub-mkconfig will create a new device map on the fly, if none > exists. True? Also, sometimes leaving the old one in place causes problems. > True? If I need to create a new one is there a utility that does that, or do > I just decipher it and make the necessary changes manually? > >
I've never done this -> wouldn't it be possible to "dd-it", boot and then extend the home partition? -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392435784.9262.161.camel@tagesuhu-pc
