copying to a larger disk
 

Hello All,

I am swapping out hard drives on my desktop. They are both pretty close to being the same size and they are both by the same manufacturer. What I plan to do is put the new one in boot up with a live CD and copy over EVERYTHING to the new one. Then take out the old one and just carry on like normal.

My question is: What copy command is most appropriate to copy EVERYTHING and/or what cp options will do what I need to do? I know I don't want to use dd as that will copy over the partition table as well.

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/newdisk

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/olddisk

# cd /mnt/oldisk

# find ./ -xdev -print0 | cpio -pa0V /mnt/newdisk

Go have lunch or something.

That is all assuming you only have one partition on each disk. If you have many, just repeat the procedure accordingly.

That is WONDERFUL!!!!

Thanks lucmove!

I will give that a shot!