Moving Fedora

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 11 22:11:15 UTC 2008


Mike wrote:
> 
> I need to move a Fedora system from one HDD to another.
> 
> Here is the configuration:
> 
> I have Fedora as the only OS on a 80GB HDD PATA. It boots and plays 
> nice. I spent a lot of time getting the system to do exactly what I want 
> and it does so very well. My problem is that I need to move it to a 
> larger disk.
> 
> I want to move it to a 500GB SATA drive on the same machine. I can solve 
> the BIOS problem of pointing to the right drive.
> 
> Any pointers on formatting the SATA drive and moving the whole kit and 
> caboodle to the new drive without trashing weeks of work?
> 
> The partition sizes can remain the same.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers...
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
Google. This has been done and described ad nauseum.




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