Fastest way to move Ubuntu from one (small) disk to a (bigger) disk?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Mon Aug 4 21:07:19 UTC 2008


Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> wrote:

> I need to move my Ubuntu system from one small disk to a bigger one. 
> What's the fastest way to do so? (If I can avoid a re-install, it's better).

Mount the target disk, copy the files on it, change /etc/fstab and
your boot loader config if needed and reinstall the boot loader with
e.g.

  sudo chroot /media/big_disk
  grub-install 


   Florian
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