Moving ubuntu partition

[Yorvik]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 11 June 2006 00:13, Yorvik wrote:
>> We have just added a second HD to our machine and want to move
>> ubuntu from the first drive to the second, whats the best way of
>> doing this. The first drive is split 50:50 windows/ubuntu and we
>> want to end up with windows on the first drive and ubuntu on the
>> second.
> 
> All you need do is copy the Ubuntu files from hda to hdb, preserving 
> the same partition structure. Then edit the relevant entries in your 
> boot loader config file and /etc/fstab and any other config files 
> that know about partitions (often the first two is enough).
> 
> The long way round is to use fdisk to create the new partitions, and 
> cp -a to copy everything across. The faster way (assuming that none 
> of the new partitions are smaller than the corresponding ones on the 
> first drive) is dd:
> 
> dd if=/path/to/old/partition of=/path/to/new/partition bs=[blocksize]
> 
> Eg, to copy the old home on /dev/hda6 to the new location /dev/hdb3 
> using a block size of 1k:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hdb3 bs=1k
> 
> Once this is done, reboot and check that ubuntu works ok in the new 
> location. Now you can delete the old partitions on hda with fdisk and 
> resize the Windows NTFS partition to the full disk. It's highly 
> likely that partition starts at the beginning of the disk, ntfsresize 
> will do this nicely.

Thanks very much. We had worked out the long way round but dd made it a 
lot easier.

Ta