[NTLUG:Discuss] How to move data from one drive to another

[brian@pongonova.net]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:20:00PM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> John Thomas wrote:
> >
> >My naive thought is to install the 72 gig drive as the second drive, use 
> >dd to image the existing disk onto it, and then swap the drives.  Is the 
> >possible, or, if so, the best way to  go?
> 
> Other times though, I like to take advantage of the opportunity to get a 
> fresh start with the latest distro version and only copy the needed data.

I'll second that!  Just mount the old drive under /mnt/<hostname>,
install that *other* distro you've always wanted to try, and then
selectively copy data from old to new.  After a few
months/years/whatever, that much of your old data no longer has the
same draw as it did before, so it's much easier to just blow it away
and free that old disk space up for something more important.

  --Brian