Re: New Hard Drive?


Subject: Re: New Hard Drive?
From: Bryn Hughes (linux@mail.demian.shacknet.nu)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 10:20:07 MST


Simplest way would be to mount the new drive in Linux... There's a
really good HOWTO at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ that explains the
whole procedure.

Bryn

>I want to move my current install from one external SCSI drive to another
>and then start using the new one instead of the old one.
>
>What is the easiest way to transfer all the files from the old drive to the
>new one?
>
>I know how to do this in MacOS. I don't know how to do this in YDL.
>
>Also, is there something for MacOS which would let me mount the YDL drives
>and do the copy there without messing up the priveldeges and such.
>
>Also, Also, I need whatever process I use to transfer the files to make sure
>the aliases (or whatever they are called on Linux) transfer correctly and
>all point at files on the new drive...
>
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