[ILUG] Best way to upgrade a laptop drive

[Paolo Marchiori]

Denis Hennessy, Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:32:32PM +0100:
> I have a laptop running fedora core 2. It's currently a 60GB disk with
> three partitions (swap, boot, /). I'm out of space so I've bought an
> 80GB disk to replace it. My question is: what's the easiest way to
> transfer the data from my old disk to my new one.

desktop:# mkdir backup
laptop:# rsync -vazP --stats --exclude /proc / desktop:backup/
(wait)
(replace hard drive, boot with a live CD, partition drive, make
filesystems, mount filesystems under /mnt)
liveCD:# rsync -vazP --stats desktop:backup/ /mnt/
(wait)
liveCD:# chroot /mnt
liveCD:# grub-install /dev/hda
liveCD:# reboot

p.
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