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From: Michael McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Red Hat list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:10 PM
Subject: Moving to a larger hard drive
>I have 2 hard drives one for windoz and one for LINUX. The Linux drive
>is nearly full (1.5gb) so I want to replace it with a larger (10 gb).
>I want to make a small (1 gb) partition for Dos and the remainder for
>Linux. I want to transfer Linux from the old 1.5 gb drive to the new 10
>gb drive. I have seen in the past some discussion here about this.
>Would someone please either tell me about how to do this or direct me to
>some documents/books on how to do it.
>Thanks
>Michael
I just finished moving from a single 5.1 gig hard drive that had Linux and
win98 on it, to win98 on the 5.1 and linux on a new 20gig drive. After
looking around a bit, I decided to go easy on myself and get partition
magic. It worked fine and was reasonably linux friendly. You can do this
without commercial tools though. You could just install the new drive,
partition the drive via fdisk and build the filesystems with mkfs. Then you
would just use cp -R and whatever the option is that preserves permissions,
to copy the data across. You will have to boot into rescue mode via boot
disk and the RH cd, in order to not be using either drive during the
copying. Once the data is transfered, you will need to mount the new drives
and edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new partitions being used. You will
also need to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive as well. Once done,
run lilo on the new lilo.conf and have fun rebooting. It goes without
saying, backups are good :). Also, don't kill your original disk partitions
until you have the new drive running linux smoothly.
This was a quick and dirty write up, please read up on the man pages for
the utilities before jumping in :) Good luck.
Jeff Hogg
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