Drive Change

[Josh Smith]

Bill,
If you want to add this larger drive to your system and mount it as storage
for your home directory or etc. you will just need to mount it somewhere
temporarily, copy the data then adjust your fstab to mount it automatically
at its permanent location.

If you are looking to replace your existing drive with this larger one
perhaps the easiest way to do things is to use dpkg -l or something similar
to dump a list of your currently installed packages, reinstall the OS and
then reinstall all of your packages and copy your configuration files and
personal data (home directories) from the older drive.

I have used both approaches in the past with success depending on my goals.

-- 
Josh Smith
KD8HRX
email/jabber:  juicewvu at gmail.com
phone:  304.237.9369(c)



On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Bill Wright <pegasus at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> I want to mount a larger drive  in this computer. How can I go about
> transferring everything on my present drive to a larger. I want to avoid
> reinstalling the entire system to a new drive.
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