[TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive

[Jon Carnes]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 20:21, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> I've done this a number of times.  I like to use knoppix.  I partition
> and format the new drive, and then for any non-swap partitions I mount
> them on each drive and do:
> 
> cp -avx /mnt/old/* /mnt/new/*
> 
> Works like a charm.  Don't forget to run lilo on the new drive.
> 
> Michael
> 

I second this. It works great.