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**silvagroup** · Oct 24, 2007, 10:47 AM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

No need to move swap.
As for moving home if your having problems you may want to use a liveCD such as Knoppix to do that with. The Kubuntu livecd may also work since the partitions are all linux, but I am not sure. I know Knoppix will find all the partitions and make them available for mounting.

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 28, 2007, 02:27 AM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

Well here I am using the Kubuntu 5.10 liveCD trying to work out how to copy the root directory from the 40gb HDD onto the 320gb HDD.

I've gone into System Settings --> System Administration --> Disk and Filesystems. All the Hard drives are there and I can mount and enable all the various partitions.

But it doesn't seem to work.

This is how I have done it.

1) Examine Disk and Filesystems, which show the following:

Disk 'WDC WD3200...'
1 Partition 40.0 gb /dev/hdd1
2 Partition 20.5 gb /dev/hdd2
3 Partition 237.5gb /dev/hdd3

Disk 'WDC WD400...'
1 Partition 29.3 gb /dev/hdb1
2 Partition 8.0 gb /dev/hdb2

Disk 'WDC WD400...'
1 Partition 13.0 gb /dev/hda1
1 Partition 24.3 gb /dev/hda2

2. Mount and enable hdd1:

1 Partition 40.0gb /newroot ext2 /dev/hdd1

3. Mount and enable hdb1:

1 Partition 29.3gb /oldroot ext2 /dev/hdb1

4. Go into Konqueror, opening newroot and oldroot in tabs

5. In oldroot tab, select all and copy all files in root.

6. Go into newroot tab, paste files,

7. "Access denied to /newroot/bin"

Chances are that I need to be root when doing this... yet I can easily access data in the oldroot directory without needing root or sudo.

BASIC QUESTION: How do I copy the root directory from one drive to another using LiveCD (Remember I'm using 5.10, not 7.10)

**silvagroup** · Oct 28, 2007, 09:18 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

5.10, wow that's really stretching the old brain sells for for an old man like me, but I believe you just enter sudo at the konsole prompt and you'll get root.
You can also try sudo konqueror and I think you will be able to run konqueror as root.

Also I haven't read your prior but couldn't you just do a fresh install into your new hard drive and then copy your date files form your other drive over? Also the fresh install will give you the needed partition set up.

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 28, 2007, 10:25 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

No. Doesn't work. Entered sudo kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing, Konqueror came up but it will not let me copy the root directory over.

In order for me to re-load Kubuntu 7.10 it would mean I would have to sit on the internet for 20 hours downloading everything again. I already did that a week or two ago and I'm not prepared to do it again. Besides there are files and directories in the root directory I would like to keep rather than to reinstall and/or upgrade.

Moreover, I don't have a 7.10 LiveCD to install.

Why is it so hard to do this most basic of things - copying files from one Hard Drive to another?

**SheeEttin** · Oct 29, 2007, 01:27 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

As root ("sudo -s"):

Code:

mkdir /oldroot
mkdir /newroot
mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd1 /newroot
mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdb1 /oldroot

Copy files and you're done.

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 29, 2007, 04:13 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

Didn't work

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

**SheeEttin** · Oct 29, 2007, 07:56 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

Try "mount -t ext2 ...", in both.

**silvagroup** · Oct 29, 2007, 10:22 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

SheeEttin would mount -o ext2 uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd1 /newroot also work?

And why isn't sudo Konqueror not working, I use it all the time on my systems from cli and or terminal and it works everytime. Permissions problem also?

Just curious.

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 29, 2007, 11:39 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

This is what happens:

root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext2 uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd1 /newroot
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .

root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext2 uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdb1 /oldroot
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
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I have no idea what all that meant. I still can't copy (both newroot and oldroot are not mounted according to System Settings)

**SheeEttin** · Oct 30, 2007, 01:42 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

You forgot -o.
Whole line should look like this: "mount -t ext2 -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd1 /newroot".
-o for mount options, -t for FS type.

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 30, 2007, 04:50 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

This is getting annoying...

Code:

root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext2 -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd1 /newroot
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1,
   missing codepage or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so

root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext2 -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdb1 /oldroot
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
   missing codepage or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so

Remember, I am using a Kubuntu 5.10 LiveCD. Not 7.10, 5.10.

**SheeEttin** · Oct 30, 2007, 05:06 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

Interesting... and these are ext2 filesystems?
Hm.
I am confused. mount can't tell they're ext2s, and specifying that says "no"...

What does "dmesg | tail" say?

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 30, 2007, 10:25 PM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -s
root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | tail
[4301679.840000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[4301679.920000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[4301679.920000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[4320658.912000] EXT2-fs warning (device hdd3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
[4320658.912000]
[4320658.912000] EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
[4321819.994000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[4321819.994000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[4321820.106000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[4321820.106000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
root@ubuntu:~#

**OneSalientOversigh** · Oct 31, 2007, 07:39 AM

Re: Moving from three hard drives to one big one

I solved it

In the end I decided to give up and install Kubuntu 5.10. Since I had already partitioned the hard drive I decided to do manually install 5.10 on the root partition that I had set aside.

And then, as I was following the instructions in the Kubuntu setup menu, I saw that I had the option of copying from one partition to another - which I did successfully.

So I was able to copy the /oldroot partition to the /newroot partition simply using the installation instructions. Once the copying had been completed, I reset the computer and off I went.

Using the 5.10 LiveCD to copy the 7.10 root? Priceless.

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