I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.

Z.K.

On 03/04/2007 03:37 AM, Z.K. wrote:
> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.
>
> Z.K.

Here are some ways to do that:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...ml#s-archiving

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:37:36 GMT, Z.K. wrote:

> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

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* Z.K. wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.

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On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:37:36 +0000, Z.K. wrote:

> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.
>
> Z.K.

Here is what I did when I replace the 40gb drive in my laptop with a 120gb
drive.

1) copied partition information to external USB drive using fsdisk.
2) backed up partitions to external USB drive using partimage (you'll need
to boot another installed distro or a live CD since you can't back up a
mounted partition).
3) swapped drives.
4) booted Live CD and used saved partition data and fsdisk to partition
new drive.
5) used partimage to restore partitions from USB drive.
6) wrote MBR using grub and info in restored partitions.

Then I rebooted and resized some partitions.

If this is a desktop with room to install both drives at once there are
easier ways.

gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:37:36 GMT, Z.K. wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
>> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
>
> gregor


Oh okay, I did not realize that there was a howto on this.

Thanks,

Z.K.

ray wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:37:36 +0000, Z.K. wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a larger
>> hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.
>>
>> Z.K.
>
> Here is what I did when I replace the 40gb drive in my laptop with a 120gb
> drive.
>
> 1) copied partition information to external USB drive using fsdisk.
> 2) backed up partitions to external USB drive using partimage (you'll need
> to boot another installed distro or a live CD since you can't back up a
> mounted partition).
> 3) swapped drives.
> 4) booted Live CD and used saved partition data and fsdisk to partition
> new drive.
> 5) used partimage to restore partitions from USB drive.
> 6) wrote MBR using grub and info in restored partitions.
>
> Then I rebooted and resized some partitions.
>
> If this is a desktop with room to install both drives at once there are
> easier ways.
>

Yes, this is a desktop and I do have the ability to have both drives
installed at the same time. Thanks for the info.

Z.K.

Mumia W. wrote:
> On 03/04/2007 03:37 AM, Z.K. wrote:
>> I was wondering what is the best way to copy my Ubuntu Drive to a
>> larger hard drive; I don't really want to reinstall everything.
>>
>> Z.K.
>
> Here are some ways to do that:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...ml#s-archiving
>

Thanks.

Z.K.