John,
Assuming you can only have 4 HD's in at once:
1) usb connect the 2TB and partition off 250 GB
2) copy the 80GB to the 250GB partition
3) remove the 80GB drive and install the 2TB drive
4+ ... Proceed as you might have.
I'd be daunted by the prospect copying 1 TB over usb. Is that a naive
reaction?
Also, off your original method ... Rsync instead of copy? I'd expect
something to hiccup while doing this much copying. It always hiccups for
me :)
Sp
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 7:26 am, John Mort wrote:
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?
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