[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:58:05AM +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> > tar cflp - /mnt/oldhome | tar xflp - /home
> 
> I see where you are coming from, but I don't really want to install
> the distro again, as I've got this one up to date and don't want to
> spend time patching etc. I just want to hunk it all across, preferably
> to lvm based "partitions".

OK, well don't know much about LVM partitions, but it is also perfectly
possible to do:

tar cflp - / | tar xflp - /mnt/newdisk

Rich.

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