Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Gentle folks, > > I have an old PII system, running Mdk 9.1 and W2k, on a HDD of 8GB as > follows: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 2.1G 2.0G 74M 97% / > /dev/hda4 46M 6.4M 37M 15% /boot > /dev/hda1 3.0G 2.9G 143M 96% /mnt/win_c > /dev/hda2 2.5G 2.4G 133M 95% /mnt/win_d > > As you can see, there is not much room left here :-) > > What I plan to do is to buy a new IDE drive of 80 gig and try Symantec > Norton Ghost (or something else) to clone the old drive content onto the > new one. It would be also nice to 'widen' the existing partition - to be > larger than they are now (recently I managed to make that from a 2.4 GB > to 40 GB disk running W2k only, using Symantec Norton Ghost 2001, but I > am not sure if that tool would work with win/lin combo drive). Any > suggestion? > > Regards, > Misko > > One thing to be carefull of - you may need a BIOS update before the system will see the 80 GB drive. I don't know if your version of Ghost will handle the Linux partitions. You may need to use something like Ghost for Linux or partimage to transfere them.
You may want to split your Linux install into more partitions on the new drive. I would definitly split /home off into its own partition. Also, when creating your new /boot partition, make sure it is in the part of the drive that the BIOS can read. If you go this route, you may want to create and format the Linux partitions using a live CD, mount the entire new tree, and then copy all the files over. There are several different copy commands that will copy the files while preserving the ownership and permissions. What I usualy do is put the /boot partition first, then the Windows partitions, and then the Linux partitions. It is usualy a good idea to use windows fdisk to create the windows partitions, leaving enough room for the /boot partition before the first Windows partitions. this way, you are sure both Windows and Linux agree on the dist geomitry. Linux has not trouble adjusting to how Windows sets things, but Windows does its own things, and can mess up the Linux partitions if they are created first. One thing I find strange is that you have 2 primary Windows partitions. I didn't think Windows fdisk would let you do that. Windows usualy want only one primary partition, and then creates logicial partitions for the rest... Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 http://counter.li.org
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