On 07/22/2011 07:03 AM, andre999 wrote:
TJ a écrit :
At the moment, my hard drive setup is like this...
I'd like to move my present Mandriva 2010.2 system partition (sdb1)to a
different hard drive where my present Mageia system now resides (sda5),
replace the contents of the present Mageia /home (sda7) with the
important contents of the present Mandriva /home (sdb6), thus having it
so I can boot into Mandriva on sda as my backup system. Then, I will do
a clean install of Mageia on sdb1, leaving my original Mandriva /home
intact, thus making Mageia my production system.
I want to use sdb6 for my production /home because it is much larger
than sda7. I suppose I could just switch the two /homes, but that would
leave system and data on separate drives for both, and a hard drive
failure would take out both systems. I prefer having system and data on
the same drive.
Can anybody offer suggestions on how to accomplish this herculean feat
the easiest way possible? Oh, almost forgot - if it helps I do have an
external usb drive big enough to back up the important parts of my
production /home. In fact, that's what I use it for.
TJ
Would be glad to help you, I've done lots of juggling like that.
What are the sizes of the partitions ?
And how much free space does each have ?
What is available on the external drive ?
If the sizes of sda and sdb are comparable, it might be simpler to swap
drives.
If you have spare space on one of the internal drives, it would be a lot
faster than using an external drive (unless by chance it is usb3 -- both
ends)
Basically it would be better to minimize the data transferred.
One thing I do is define a number of other partitions than /home for
various files that would otherwise go into /home.
Like that you can keep a relatively small /home.
Sda is quite a bit smaller than sdb, and also contains a 48GB Windows XP
partition which I'd rather leave alone for the time being. The Mandriva
and Mageia system partitions are both 12GB. The Mandriva system
partition has 5.6 GB of open space, and the Mageia partition shouldn't
be quite that full. Sda7 is 88GB, while sdb6 is 215GB. Sdb6 currently
has 96 GB on it, but if I do some much-needed housekeeping I could
reduce that to fit on sda7 with room to spare. The external drive is
usb2, and 160GB.
TJ
