hdb hda copy for new drive

[flebber]

have been running PclinuxOS 07 on hda 60GB run out of space now have drive split up as / and /home . I have installed new WD 250GB drive as slave. I want to move my root and /home dirs to hdb (new drive) and use hda as test drive.

Can I do it ?

I have everything set so sweet I just don't want to have to redo it.

PS I have tried a command like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb however I do not seem to get any reponse good or bad when I use it.

[hazel]

You need to partition the new drive first with fdisk or one of its relatives. Make the partitions where / and /home are to go and create native Linux filesystems on them with mkfs. Then try copying.

[benerivo]

This link may help, although I can't verify that it works...
http://beans.seartipy.com/2006/09/24...ent-partition/

[devils casper]

This link may help, although I can't verify that it works...
http://beans.seartipy.com/2006/09/24...ent-partition/

thats an excellent tutorial and will definitely work.

[flebber]

It appears to be all working on the new drive. I did have to "fsck -y" on first boot as it reported drive errors but now seems okay (cross fingers) .

Thanks for the reply's most appreciated

[flebber]

There is only one side effect - the files in my home directory are read only. So I logged in as root and used the "chown -R /home/flebber" to change permissions however it said files are read only cannot change permissions so I added user flebber to wheel, adm and video (may as well while I am doing it) but still files in home drive are read only any ideas.

[devils casper]

how did you copy files? "cp -a" keeps permissions, symlinks and ownership too.

[flebber]

I dragged and dropped them in konqueror

[flebber]

I am redoing it with "cp -a". I can see that the first few folders root has ownership of.