On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:52 +0200, 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
You really should have a separate /home partition. It makes re-installs
much easier.
You could try this:
Boot up into your Linux install and run as root.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
As far as I know that will make a bit for bit copy of the first drive to
the second. *Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.*
Disconnect the old drive. Boot up on the new one. Then use diskdrake
to create a /home partition on the free space left on the 80GB drive.
It should give you the option to copy over the existing information in
your current /home to the new /home partition.
Sound good?
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Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BF Computer Consulting
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