Migrate ubuntu to another partition

[Sasha Tsykin]

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Duncan Anderson wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:47, Filip Ruymen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to migrate my installation from one partition to another.
>> currently it is on hdb1 and I want to move it to hdb3.
>>
>> How can this be done without reinstalling everyting?
>>
>> any help or tips on how to do it?
> 
> Yes. You can do this fairly easily. I assume you have created a file system 
> on /dev/hdb3. Mount the empty /dev/hdb3 partition. Make an exact copy of the 
> existing root file system on /dev/hdb3, then edit /etc/fstab 
> and /etc/lilo.conf on the new partition so that every reference to hdb1 is 
> changed to hdb3. 
> 
> Once you have done this, open a root console window and then
> 
> chroot /<hdb3's mountpoint> /bin/sh
> su -
> lilo
> exit 
> exit
> reboot
> 
> Well, that is the general idea. Some of the Ubuntu boffins can point out the 
> finer points. I am not familiar enough with Ubuntu to explain it step by 
> step.
> 
> 
> cheers
> Duncan
> 
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Obviously you would ahve to do it differently if you were using grub
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