On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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.
diskdrake won't allow you to do that with minimal fuss? <snip> -- Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BF Computer Consulting
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