Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive

[Thierry Vignaud]

Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> 
> I have mandrake 6.0 on a server with a 2.1g drive and a 6.3g drive the
> other ide cable has a cdrom and cd-rw on it. I need more disk space
> badly so I want to upgrade the first hard drive .
> 
> What is the most painless way to do this?

1) partition (cfdisk/fdisk/...) and format (mke2fs -s1 / mkswap) your
new drive
2) copy your partition :
  - for each of your partition do 'cd sourcepartition;tar cf - *|(cd
DEST;tar xf -)'
3)alter the fstab of your new root fs in order that it mounts the good
partition (and don't swap on your data partitions ...)
4) boot on your new rootfs

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