Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-21 Thread csj
On 20 Jun 2002 20:08:38 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:21, csj wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2002 04:56:41 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot > > > on /dev/hdc2, then symlin

Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-20 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:09:59PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > depends. What do you mean replicate what is happening on the disk. If > you mean replicate the file systems, Just repartition the new disk with > sufficient space to copy over the old file systems then use tar(I forget > the exact in

Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:21, csj wrote: > On 20 Jun 2002 04:56:41 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot > > on /dev/hdc2, then symlinks like /vmlinuz which are now > > /new/treeroot/vmlinuz still point back to /de

Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-20 Thread csj
On 20 Jun 2002 04:56:41 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I copy /boot to /new/boot on /dev/hdc1, and / to /new/treeroot > on /dev/hdc2, then symlinks like /vmlinuz which are now > /new/treeroot/vmlinuz still point back to /dev/hda1 instead of > automagically pointing to /dev/

Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-20 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:00, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and > taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I > want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a > pretty painless way of

Re: Replacing a new HD

2002-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:00, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and > taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I > want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a > pretty painless way of