copy full system from old disk to a new one

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 02/17/2013 03:30 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:
>
>> How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving
>> me some trouble) to a new disk.
> [....]
>> I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub,
>> and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var.
> You can do that easily. Prepare your new disk (partition, format),
> boot from an external medium, e.g. http://www.sysresccd.org ,
> mount the old and the new partitions and do a
>
>   rsync -avxHSAX /old/ /new
>
> This is all you need. Afterwards, you'll have to reinstall GRUB, which
> you can do this way (assumed /dev/sda1 is yor root partition):
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
> grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> That's it. Reboot, and you're done.
> (Did this procedure a lot, and it never failed for me).
>
Just curious, will this apply to moving /_everything _/over from a 
"smaller" drive to a "bigger" one?.......like....say from a 320GB SATA 
HDD to a 500GB SATA HDD?....will the OS automatically be able to 
identify and recognize the free space on the new drive?


EGO II
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