Moving to a new disk..

[B. Cook]

B. Cook wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got a dying drive on my hands.. and I know I found a doc/guide on 
> the handbook before regarding this..
> 
> something like..
> 
> # tar cf - --one-file-system -C /var . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt/var
> 
> where the new drive is fsck'd and mounted at /mnt ..
> 
> or something else..
> 
> where is that?
> 
> or how would I do that?
> 
> I just want to take this 20G drive and copy it to a 30G drive..
> 
> what would be the best way?
> 
> (and I need to talk to someone over the phone about this.. it's his box 
> and he has no inet)
> 
> Thanks in advance.


Where could I tell him to get a live cd?

the installer CDs offer the option to drop into single user mode.. but 
it just goes right to the installer..

:P