[mythtv-users] Relocating a system?

[Jan Johansson]

Whats the fastest way to migrate a system from one partition to another?

My MythTV-box started out as a FC2-box, because I felt that Jarods guide
was the best Myth-Howto at the time. I recently migrated this to Debian,
since all my other boxes are Debian.

When I originally installed the system, I left 3GB for a "future upgrade
to Debian project", but now I am finding that partition a bit crowded.

So, I would like to move my system from hda5 -> hda2.

So, I figure I could do a 'cp -a' and edit fstab. But what about
booting? Would it really be so easy as to just edit grub.conf to the new
path?

So from, 

root            (hd0,4) 

to

root            (hd0,1)



mythbox:/# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda5       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
#/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/hda6       /mnt/hda6       auto    defaults


mythbox:/# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             2.9G  2.2G  589M  79% /
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6             173G  155G   19G  90% /mnt/hda6
tmpfs                  94M  144K   94M   1% /dev
/dev/hda2             9.9G  5.9G  3.5G  63% /mnt/hda2

mythbox:/# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/hda6 type xfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/hda2 type ext3 (rw)
mythbox:/# fdisk /dev/hda


Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        1318    10482412+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1319        1383      522112+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hda4            1384       24321   184249485    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1384        1757     3004123+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1758       24321   181245298+  83  Linux

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