Rob Hurle: > > […] Any ideas on how I can copy my existing / partition and boot > information to a new disc? Would dd be a good idea? How can I > prepare the new disc to be the boot disc and have / on it without > disturbing my current system?
There are many ways to skin this cat, but generally you only need to:
- prepare the target disk (partitioning, possibly LVM, filesystems)
- copy the data
- adjust config files (fstab, boot loader)
- install boot loader to new disk
You generally don't need to worry about disturbing the currently running
system. You should probably copy the root file system in single user
mode anyway. The only pitfall I can think of right now is if you copy
filesystems using dd you end up with multiple filesystems with the same
UUID. I would avoid that and copy the files using rsync or tar.
> In these days of udev and UUIDs, can we just alter /etc/fstab and
> still expect partitions to be mounted?
Generally yes. There's no magic involved.
BTW, this is one of the scenarios where LVM shines.
J.
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