How to exchange hard-disk easiest?

[fredlcore]

Hi,

my WL-HDD has a build-in harddisk of 60GB size, which was enough for backups etc., but now I want to use it as a upnp media server, so a larger one is needed.

Since I have installed quite a lot of add-ons and made some configuration changes, I wanted to know if anyone has an idea how to exchange the harddisk and keep all the files etc.?

What happens when I just add the new harddrive? Will the firmware still be intact etc.? Can I then just copy over all the files from the old harddisk and all the services etc. will remain as they are?

I tried the serach already, but it didn't come up with something I could use. If there is already a how-to, please excuse, any help (or link) would be highly appreciated!

CU!

F.

[EdSki]

Make an exact image from the old HD, restore it on the new HD. Should work.

Ed

[fredlcore]

Hm, since I put in a much bigger harddisk (160 GB now, 60 GB before), an image would result in wasting the added capacity.

It was indeed much simpler, the system boots even without a harddisk, I could log into the wl-hdd via telnet, partition and format the new harddisk (explained in the wiki), but keeping the same numbers of partitions and order as before.
Now I hooked up the old harddisk via USB, mounted it to /tmp/harddisk and copied all files to the new (old) mountpoint /opt.

Of course this takes ages through USB 1.1, so I only copied the most important files first, to get the ssh (or samba) server going and copied the rest via (W)LAN using scp or samba.

I hope this helps someone else,

Frederik.