On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 07:26 -0500, 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? > > -- Since you've gotten several answers to your question, I feel no harm is done if I raise a question. I'm curious what is on your 80 GB Ubuntu drive that is causing it to be 90% full. On my desktop PC my Fedora partition and my Ubuntu partition are each 10 GB and they are about 60% full. I have a separate /home partition for Fedora but I don't save my files there. I keep almost all of my saved data in two large data-only partitions. My point is that there might be an alternate solution to your problem involving an alternate partitioning setup. You might be able to leave sdb alone and move some of its contents to sdd, which you could replace with a larger drive. By leaving sdb alone, you would avoid the sticky part of your data migration procedure.
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