[Wylug-help] Switching the system to a new hard drive

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:
>> - mount the new partitions and copy across all the data (with rsync or
>>  cp?)
>
> I'd be more of a fan of dump and restore.  This is the sort of thing I 
> do like LVM for, as it'd let you move from the old disk to the new disk 
> without unmounting or a reboot...

I'm a fan of tar for this job - but it helps if the root partition is not
mounted, so boot Knoppix or similar from a cdrom.

Having said that, I'd not thought about the joys of LVM, which so far I've 
pretty much ignored. Mmmm food for thought there, thanks John.