Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I am migrating off of a 40GIG hda to a new 160GIG sda disk. > I plan on installing 4.2 from scratch. But after that what > is the correct way do transfer all the data from hda (home > partition really) to the new sda home partition? # mkdir /newhome # mount /dev/sda1 /newhome (assuming it's sda1) # cd /home # find . -mount | cpio -pmdv /newhome > I presume there is just a couple files in /etc to restore > also. Like hosts, passwd. Anything else? _Be_careful_ on blindly copying things from /etc. That's why I use RCS (ci -l filename) after anytime I edit a file. So I can do something like this ... # cd /etc # find . -mount | grep -i "\,v" | cpio -pmdv /newroot/etc That copies all version files (,v) to the new /etc. Then I can run "rcsdiff" to see the differences between the new files and my original ones (without blowing away the original ones). > Other suggestions welcome also. this is my first time > migrating to a new disk. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)