I've outgrown my current HD. I did a search on moving data to a completely different disk, but only saw info on using 'cp -a'.

What about doing something like this:

1) Create new filesystem on 2nd (new) HD & mount somewhere
2) Use 'find . -depth -print | cpio -pdlmv' to copy everything from root to mounted 2nd HD (excluding /mnt, /proc, /cdrom & /floppy)

Now what about the lilo boot loader? I'll be removing the original HD, so the HD assignments in fdisk will be the same (no worries about fstab or anything).
If I run lilo to install the MBR on the 2nd disk, that should work, right?

Anything else I missed?

Sal

Yeah, it looks like cp -a is what you want. What you described should work.

As an aside, while you're moving stuff, you might want to consider GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) as a replacement for lilo - it's generally replacing lilo as the standard bootloader and is a bit more customisable.

You could also try this.

Add the new Harddisk.
For example i will asume you have 2 IDE drivers. /dev/hda and /dev/hdb

Boot Slackware as usual and then run the following commands

init 1
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

This will copy everyting , bit by bit, from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb including the bootsector and everything.

Remove the original harddrive, and boot the new harddrive.

Worked for me a while ago, but i don't know what effect this will have with harddrives of different sizes. (anyone ?)

You could also make a partition on hdb around the size of hda and only dd the partition

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1

Anyway, you get the idea