Hi Gavin I can give you a hand anytime setting up a new drive and copying the files over. You can even use the live cd that I left at Chris's place with the graphical tool gparted and any linux copying will do the trick. Cheers Geoff
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, Gavin Stephens wrote: > >> Is it possible to just copy the partition from the old disk to the new >> one, but then extend the partition out to fill the mammoth amount of >> space on the new one? I've never attempted this yet in Linux, but I've >> done it successfully in Windows on the active partition, so I'm guessing >> this old Suse can do the same? Or do I need to re-install everything? > > I've lately taken to keeping the OS on a separate drive from the Rivendell > audio files, and have recently been experimenting with putting /var/snd on > an external USB drive. > > It is possible to use dd to "clone" a drive to a new drive, but I've never > tried it. In your shoes, I'd be tempted to do it for the OS and then map > /var/snd to a different and much larger drive. > > OTOH, I soured on SuSE a couple years ago and have built all my recent > machines on Debian, although I may follow Fred's lead and switch to > CentOS. > > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
