Todd Walton wrote:
On 5/7/05, RB W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure I follow why these particular partitions are required
It's just simple and fairly safe. hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is the root.
but as regards the underlying information you could simply install
clean a new distro on the new drive as /dev/hda and later mount the
old drive as /dev/hdb at mount point /var2. Now you can pick the
important data off the old drive and put it where you want on the new
drive with the new install.
I don't have time to install a new distro. I have all the info I
need, on a hard disk that's too small. I need to get it on to the
other one somehow.
<man parted excerpt>
parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It
allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-
swap, FAT and FAT32 partitions. This is useful for creating space for
new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new
hard disks.
</man parted excerpt>
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