P3P
April 25th, 2008, 01:34 PM
Hello,
I have an Ubuntu 8.04 working on my system, but I want to move that installation to another partition.
It is possible to copy all the contents of / to the new partition with cp -r command?
Is any other option needed for the cp command?
After copy the root partition contents I will change the grub configuration and the fstab file. Are any other changes needed?
Do you think that this method will work well? Any alternative ideas?
Now I will explain you why I need this trick. My current partition is on a FakeRaid RAID0 volume and my target partition is on a FakeRaid RAID5 volume. Standard Kernels do not support RAID5, so I need recompile kernel with RAID5 support. But I do not known how to use the Ubuntu installation CD with a custom kernel (capable of install on a RAID5), so I install Ubuntu in the RAID0 using the installation CD and dmraid. Once Ubuntu installed I recompile a custom kernel with RAID5 support, boot with this custom kernel and copy everything to target RAID5 partition.
Will it work?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
I have an Ubuntu 8.04 working on my system, but I want to move that installation to another partition.
It is possible to copy all the contents of / to the new partition with cp -r command?
Is any other option needed for the cp command?
After copy the root partition contents I will change the grub configuration and the fstab file. Are any other changes needed?
Do you think that this method will work well? Any alternative ideas?
Now I will explain you why I need this trick. My current partition is on a FakeRaid RAID0 volume and my target partition is on a FakeRaid RAID5 volume. Standard Kernels do not support RAID5, so I need recompile kernel with RAID5 support. But I do not known how to use the Ubuntu installation CD with a custom kernel (capable of install on a RAID5), so I install Ubuntu in the RAID0 using the installation CD and dmraid. Once Ubuntu installed I recompile a custom kernel with RAID5 support, boot with this custom kernel and copy everything to target RAID5 partition.
Will it work?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.