Moving gentoo to another partition

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Kinou- · Post by **Kinou-** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:19 pm

Hello,

My Gentoo is installed on /dev/hda5 and would like to move it to another partition of my disk /dev/hda3

How could I proceed to move it without reinstalling ?

Sorry for my english I'm french

Thanx for your answers

amittp · Post by **amittp** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:30 pm

So u want to move only root partition?
YOu can use program like part, and move all the files on that partition (provided that the partition is appropriately formatted), then make changes in your /etc/fstab, if you dont have seperate /boot partition, then make change in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Am i missing something? I guess no..

Kinou- · Post by **Kinou-** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:40 pm

I've only one partion where all my system is installed ( the / partition)

moving all the files will cause problems with /proc no ?

zhware · Post by **zhware** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 3:56 pm

See this:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13811#97212

amittp · Post by **amittp** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:11 pm

I dont think proc will give you problem, But better you backup the data,

Well now here is example:

Lets say you need to move from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda2

first be sure that both have same filesystem. If you have ext3 on hda3, then you should have ext3 on hda2 also.

now , get the count using

fdsik /dev/hda

u will see list (i have shown just one line)

/dev/hda3 11107 12176 3437878+ 83 Linux

now do this

dd bs=1024 count=3437878 if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hda2

ur system will get copied exactly

then modify ur menu.lst and /etc/fstab

Best Luck

Post by **pjp** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:18 pm

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=75699