Re: [LUG] transferring a disk structure to another, bigger one

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:08:02PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2003 15:29, Mark Evans wrote:
> 
> > A far better command would be "cp -a". After first making the
> > appropriate filesystem(s) on the new HDD.
> 
> Will cp -a copy the boot sector?

No, but unless you have the same geometry on both disks there isn't
really much point. Since you'd need to run lilo to regenerate the boot
sector and map file anyway.

> I'm replacing my fairly full single system drive and single data drive 
> (notional division) with a pair of large drives which if things go well I 
> shall mirror, but not at least at preent by buying Promise controllers or 
> going SCSI.

The Promise controllers show up as SCSI, so if you use one you need to
make sure the driver is in the boot kernel or the initrd set of modules.

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