Migrating to new boot drive

[Socaltom]

Installed the Arm-plugapps on the Pro today, It all went fine,but I used 2 gig USB drive, a new 1T esata arrives tommorow. I want to ensure I have the process right before I start. Please correct me if this is wrong
1- boot system on Usb with Arch Linux ARM
2-cd /tmp
3-wget revert script
4 chmod +x revert script
5 run revert script
6 remove usb
7 install esata
8 format esata and install per wiki

Does that about get it?
Should I keep the usb stick as a backup?
Thanks
Tom

[WarheadsSE]

edit:
Im throwing this here so people read it right.
IF YOU HAVE NO DESIRE TO ACTUALLY REVERT, DON'T USE THE REVERT SCRIPT. .. It's just wearing out your NAND.

/edit
Technically, since you are looking to expand, I would just format a small parition for the new rootfs, extract the rootfs.tar.gz to that new partition, and then copy over /usr/local/cloudengines/ and /usr/local/mac_addr (or whichever I named the file)

You can always give that a simple shot, then if it doesn't work go and do it over.

Technically, the only thing actually *needed* out of all that is blparam (for reverting) and xce.ko (for turning off the blinker). Both are open source, so I've debated on putting them directly into the rootfs.

[Socaltom]

I decided to practice on another USB drive before my new drive arrives. I tried to migrate to a 4g USB drive ( that had been very reliable on my Pink pogo), but it would not boot on the pogopro. Dug out an old 6 gig laptop drive and stuck in in a USB case. Your method worked just fine. It took a little bit longer. I probably had to wait another minute after I got the solid green light before it would let me SSH in, but its eventually let me in.
Tom

[oiooioio]

If I am not worried about backing up my current config but just moving to a larger drive can I just attach another drive follow the initial install steps of downloading and installing and then just take the old drive out when it reboots?

[WarheadsSE]

No.

Not exactly.

Follow the steps at the bottom of the install page, and DO NOT re-run the install script.

[oiooioio]

I guess I am unable to perform those steps via SSH on the new box as rootfs will have locked files....

Am i assuming correctly with wanting to follow from "Place your boot drive in another Linux computer..." until "Place your boot drive in another Linux computer"?

[WarheadsSE]

Simplest way:
- stick the old & the new into another linux computer
- partition and format new drive
- mount new drives "rootfs" partition (should be first partition, for most people)
- as root, or sudo su, cp -ar /olddrive/* /newdrive/*

[oiooioio]

thanks for the help, here is what I ended up doing.

copied oxnas-rootfs.tar.gz & mac_addr to the desktop from the old USB

opened terminal gained root
-sudo bash

used gparted to format and label my new USB drive
-gparted
-formatted to ext3
-labeled USB64

moved the oxnas-rootfs.tar.gz to USB64
-mv /home/username/Desktop/oxnas-rootfs.tar.gz /media/USB64

extracted the tar
-cd /media/USB64
-tar -xvzf oxnas-rootfs.tar.gz

moved the mac_addr to /usr/local
-mv /home/username/Desktop/mac_addr /media/USB64/usr/local

ejected USB64, plugged into where the old USB was plugged in (1st USB port above NIC)
turned on - SSH access came up with in 1 minute
logged in
-root/root
changed root password
-passwd

[dinjo]

Can anyone exactly tell me what changes wouldnbe required in /etc/fstab if you have 2 partitions? Or should I just add the mount command in rc.local?

Also is there anyways I can disable creation of log files? Its a private server for me I would not like writes 24x7 and would also keep away from headache of housekeeping

[WarheadsSE]

logrotate, and and move the logs to a tmpfs.