On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:30 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > 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?
I should also add that you might want to create separate /usr, /var and /tmp partitions using the same method used to create the home partition (diskdrake). Create them before you create the new /home partition. -- Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BF Computer Consulting
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