How to move my / partition

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> Chris Tyler wrote:
> 
>>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
>>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
>>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
<snip>
> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.

to be *terse*:

read;
 man rsync { note -a -u -v options
 man mkinitrd
 man fstab
 man grub.conf { if there was one :)
 man chroot

with /dev/sda5 mounted, 'rsync' / to /mnt/sda6 [or how ever you have it
mounted].

if you have '/home' on a separate partition, note in 'man rsync' how to
eliminate '/home'. same applies to '/boot'.

after copy, make changes to '/boot/grub/grub.conf' and '/etc/fstab' to
reflect new locations.

'cd' to mounted directory for new '/', run 'chroot', cd to '/boot' and
run 'mkinitrd'.

reboot.

it has been a while that i last ran such, but i do believe that is it.


hth.


-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

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