Moving a partition

[Leon Goldstein]

Ken Moffat wrote:

>I don't know what all those /'s are about, but ignore them.
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>Ken Moffat wrote:
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>>Any opinions on this procedure for moving a linux install
>>from one partition (hda1) to another (sda4)?
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>>////cd /mnt/sda4
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>>//dump -0uan -f - / | restore -r -f -
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>>Then modify /etc/fstab.
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>>Seems simple... ha!
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>>Thanks for any clues.
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>>Ken
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Seems to me you would also need to reinstall  GRUB.
One technique I have used is to boot Knoppix, chroot,and run grub-install.
However, I'm not sure if this will point to the changed partition, so 
I'd check /boot/grub/menu.lst to see if the correct partition is listed.

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Leon A. Goldstein

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