<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.9.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks Mike I wasn't sure if Rsync was the best tool. A sudo Nautilus works fine for the home partition, but with all the links and special files a commandline tool is definitely need for /. I'll give it a burl. Regards Russell On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 22:21 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 21:55, Russell Cook wrote: > What I want to know is if there's a simple technique to move the root > and boot partitions to the new drive? I'm, happy enough to edit the > grub installation, but I'm not sure what's involved in maintaining > permissions when copying etc, dev, proc, sbin and other important and > special folders. Is there a tool or technique for this? With the new root mounted at /newroot,you can use "cp -vax / /newroot". Mount the new boot at /newroot/boot and "cp -vax /boot /newroot/". You may wonder why there's no boot on the end of that last command. You can experiment on some small folders in /tmp if you want to figure it out. The "-x" (or the "x" in "-vax") ensures that it only copies one filesystem at a time. Or a cpio pipeline is kind of traditional. However, I personally prefer using rsync. I can use "-n" to see what it's going to do before I let it loose: "rsync -n -vax -H --delete / /newroot/". When it looks like its going to do the right thing just run it again without the "-n". Then "rsync -n -vaz -H --delete /boot/ /newroot/boot/". You also need to get Grub or LILO working on the new drives. There's lots of different techniques. If the system is not three thousand miles away just boot the CD in recovery mode, let it find your new root, chroot into it, mount your /boot in the jail if it's not already there, then run Grub or LILO. --Mike Bird </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>