[arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 20:59 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote:
> On 27 January 2012 20:37, Kwpolska <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I bought a new PC.  I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for
> > data movement.  I created this, can someone please tell me if it's
> > okay, and, if it's not, what should I change?
> >
> > 01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD.
> > 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC.
> > 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes,
> >    EXCEPT Shared [NTFS])
> > 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home,
> >    Shared)
> Maybe you shouldn't dd them. If you dd, you will copy every single
> byte from the old partition. Maybe you can save (a lot) of time if you
> just rsync/cp them.
> > 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.)
> >    # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? #
> Yeah, you should resize the filesystem to fill the partition but I
> have no idea how to do that manually. Parted magic does it for me.

If you cp -pr all files from the old to the new drive, there's no need
to resize. If you take care about globbing, everything, aka all files
will be copied.

> > 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size.
> > 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it.
> > 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD
> >    to the NEWPC.
> > 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video)
> > 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC.
> > 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC.  Re-install GRUB.

Why won't you install Windows first?

> > 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD.  Copy some bigger Steam
> >    games to the NEWHDD.
> > 14. At long last, profit.