Perhaps this would be helpful: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:20:43PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > So, I trying to convert a machine that has been dual-booting NT and Debian > for awhile, mainly because I just noticed that I haven't booted into NT in > over two months :-) I want to reclaim that lost disk space that is currently > an NTFS partition, and that's where I'm stuck. The current layout of > the > drive is hda1=ntfs, hda2=/, hda5=swap, and hda6=/home. hda1 is 4 gigs, > and > hda2 and 6 are two gigs each. Now, I assume it would be easiest to > re-fdisk/format hda1 to be ext2, then copy all of hda2 over, then hda6 as > well, delete everything but hda1, and refdisk to make a four-gig hda2, and > recreate the swap. Sounds easy, right? Well, therein lies the troubles. > > First, I don't know of a safe way to transfer all of those files. I've tried > to use tar in the past, but had permision issues (things ended up being owned > by root). I could use dd, but that's a block-by-block transfer, right? So > the partitions would have to be the same size? cp has the same problems as > tar, and how does copying device files work? I thought I read that would > screw stuff up. > > Oh, and how do I boot up afterwards? I forgot to mention that there is no > floppy disk available, so I can't just boot off of a rescue floppy and rerun > lilo when everything is schootched around. > > So, I am undoubtably making a mountain out of a molehill, and I just ask that > you guys not laugh too loudly. Laughing up your sleeve is perfectly > acceptable, though :-) > > TIA and HAND, > > D.A.Bishop > > P.S. Of course this box is running some web services so it can't be down for > longer than about 1/2 hour. Just making things easy on me B-) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
