Re: [Hampshire] Hard disks and LVM

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +0000, linux@??? said:
>
>> If I were to create four partitions on the new disk (not
>> necessarily the same sizes as the old ones), copy the data across from
>> the old disks, and tell the BIOS to boot from the new /boot partition,
>> would Ubuntu be happy?
>
> You'd need to write the boot sector too, probably using Grub, but
> otherwise yes, it should be happy.
>

Well I believe I've sorted grub. However I now realise that in order to
copy / I need something to cope with links (I need them kept the same),
and mounts (specifically: /home/ and /boot/ are different disks so I
don't want them copied, but I don't know if e.g. /dev/ must copied?)
Google suggests a few different ways of doing it (copy, rsync,...) and I
was wondering which is best?

Leo