>>>> I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm >>>> planning on going through the normal installation process except for >>>> copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the >>>> corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch >>>> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc? >>>> >>>> - Grant >>>> >>> You should take a look at this one: >>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk >> >> Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying >> everything from the old drive to the new drive with: >> >> cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ >> >> but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII and there is about >> 250GB of data to transfer. The CD spins periodically, the hard disk >> activity light stays lit, and I can hear the old drive working >> periodically, but I'm thinking this is too long. >> >> Is there something I could have forgotten to do? Is there a way to >> check on the progress? >> >> - Grant > > I switched VTs and used 'du -sh /newdisk' to verify that about 150GB > has been copied. I guess it's just slow. > > - Grant
All booted into the new hard drive now, thanks a lot for everyone's help. It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? - Grant
