On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:14:04PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > Interesting.. I'm thinking of upgrading the primary > disk on my server from a 6Gb disk - linux installation > - to a 9Gb disk - linux installation. > > Could I plug in the second disk, dd all the stuff from > the 6gig disk to the 9 gig disk, pull out the 6gig > disk, replace it with the 9gig disk and away I go?
Definitely not, since perhaps you want to grow your filesystems. dd would also copy superblocks which contain filesystem size info. cpio is a nice tool to do such stuff. Also rsync does a nice job copying _most_ files. Don't forget to re-create grub files (in particular, the stage 1 and 2 loaders) Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) MPI für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany (http://www.aei.mpg.de) e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
