Currently my system's HDD are as follows: sda = Windows Gaming Drive sdb = 80GB - Ubuntu sdc = 1TB - Backup sdd = 250GB - File Storage
I'm at 90% capacity on both sdb and sdd, so I thought that I could open things up if I got a 2TB HDD. I have an adaptor that lets me plug an HDD to a USB port, so I figured out the following plan: 1. Connect the 2TB HDD via USB and copy everything from my 1TB drive to that drive. 2. Wipe the 1TB drive, then copy everything from the 250GB drive to the 1TB drive. 3. Wipe the 250GB drive and then copy everything from the 80GB drive to that. 4. Change the plugs so that the 2TB drive is plugged into sdc, the 1TB drive is plugged into sdd, and the 250GB drive is plugged into sdb, and pull out the 80GB drive That should leave me with the following configuration: sda = Windows Gaming Drive sdb = 250GB - Ubuntu sdc = 2TB - Backup sdd = 1TB - File Storage For steps 1 and 2 I think this is straight forward, but I'm not sure about step 3. That drive has a 77GB boot partition (sdb1), and a 3GB extended partition (sdb2) that is used entirely for swap (sdb5) If I partitioned the 250GB drive into 247GB and 3GB in the same manner, then just did a "sudo cp -rf / /media/Storage/." and then performed the cable switches, would the computer boot normally? Or is it more involved than that? -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net
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