Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > 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? > This is NOT a good idea. Why? Because it will copy the partition table and everything over. So your new drive will look like an 8 GB drive. Not exactly what you are after. Going from this point to using the full drive is a real pain.
Better way - use Windows fdisk to create the Windows partitions. Leave space for the boot partition before the first Windows partition. You can then use Ghost if you want to copy over the Windows partitions. Use partition to partition copy, not disk to disk copy. Now, use Linux fdisk (or cfdisk) to create the Linux partitions. You have several options here. You can just copy over the / and /boot partitions, and then split things up, or you can create the entire new structure, and copy things directly to their new locations. I guess you could keep using the 2 partitions plus swap you have now for Linux, and just make the / partition larger - it would be a simple copy - but I would realy consider splittting things up. There is a Ghost clone for Linux. You may want to look at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/ or ftp://fedoragcc.dyndns.org/ Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 (http://counter.li.org/)
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