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Rob Beard wrote: > When I've done this myself I've booted into Knoppix or an Ubuntu Live > CD. I have then created and formatted the partitions I want on the > destination drives. I then mount the destination drive under sometime > like /mnt/new and and the original partition under something like > /mnt/old. I then copy what I need to copy over to the new drive. > > I would use a command line like... > > cp -Rv /mnt/old/* /mnt/new > > Which would copy all files and folders from /mnt/old to /mnt/new > recursively (so everything under /mnt/old). > > I'd then make sure I updated the /etc/fstab to point to the new > partition (adding the mount point and partition if required). > > Note, this is coming from memory so it might be slightly wrong. Anyone > want to confirm if I am correct or not? > > Ta, > > Rob Cheers Rob. I was thinking that this is probably the easiest method - and to be honest, since this is not a "production server" or anything, it really ain't gonna make that much difference if it is taken offline for a few minutes. Methinks I might just do this. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html