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#1 2007-02-23 20:48:28

celsofaf
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From: Campinas, SP, BR
Registered: 2007-02-20
Posts: 25

"Brain transplant", ie, moving Arch to another partition

Hello, Arch community. I recently installed Arch Linux 0.8 after I fiddled with other distros, and I'm finding it amazing!

However, the question is just simple (not in KISS, maybe). I have installed Arch to my hda6 partition, reiserfs formated. The last partition on my hda. However, I now want to use for Arch the space I freed from the hda5 (ext3) partition. I have a second hard disk here, and no personal data inside Arch's partition. GRUB is also installed in hda6, chainloaded from my MBR's GRUB. Would it be safe to do this?

#1 - With some Live CD distro I move/copy all my data from hda6 to some free partition on hdb (I have several).
#2 - Delete hda5 and hda6 partitions, create a new hda5 and formatting it as reiserfs.
#3 - Copy the Arch's data back to hda5, and edit hda5/etc/fstab to fix the mountpoints.
#4 - Install GRUB to hda5 and change the corresponding chainload line in my MBR's GRUB.
#5 - Reboot and have fun. wink

I want to do this because I don't realy want to install Arch again and all the packages I already installed.

Does it have a chance to work at all? big_smile

Thank you very much. Arch is great!

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#2 2007-02-23 21:07:18

noriko
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From: In My Mind
Registered: 2006-06-09
Posts: 535
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Re: "Brain transplant", ie, moving Arch to another partition

absolutely...


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#3 2007-02-25 21:40:47

nazgoul
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From: Germany/Greece
Registered: 2006-08-09
Posts: 12

Re: "Brain transplant", ie, moving Arch to another partition

I'm having a similar question:
I plan to update my HDD from an old 80GB to a new 320GB one.
I planed to proceed like celsofaf ,but with i planed on doing it
through Arch.

#1. Log into arch and copy the whole Partition the the new HDD
#2. Unplug the old one
#3. Power up and run Arch ^^

I guess I won't  need any modification since all the mount points and
stuff will be still correct ,my only concert is ,if there are some
internal setting according the HDD that my get broken.

Thanks for your answers !

Edit:(some Forum links I found)
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=19434
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=16355

Last edited by nazgoul (2007-02-25 22:23:18)

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