I find it easier to put the larger drive in the existing machine along with the smaller drive. (I like to use a PCI IDE card so I don't have to mess with the Master/slave thing)
Boot off of a Knoppix CD in text mode. Check the fstab to make sure of your drive order. Change to su. (there is no password) dd the entire existing drive to the new drive. Reboot on the Knoppix CD into the GUI. Bring up a shell and change to su. Check fstab again. run "qtparted" and use this GUI tool to resize the partition. You will never use Ghost or Partition Magic again. I have even resized NTFS partitions with no problems. --- "Johnson, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Get a Knoppix CD image > 2. Burn the image onto a CD > 3. Boot the system, using the CD (with both disks > attached) > 4. Use fdisk (or cfdisk) to get the partition info > from the current disk > 5. Use fdisk (or cfdisk) to create partitions of > identical sizes and types on the new disk > 6. Use dd to copy the raw data from each partition > on the old disk to the corresponding partition on > the new disk > 7. Use leftover space on new disk to create larger > partitions, if desired > 8. Copy files from old partition to new; newest > versions of Knoppix support all windows and linux > partition and fs types > Repeat 7+8 as necessary > Note: Fedora doesn't play well with ReiserFS or full > Ext3 partitions. > > Alternatively, PartitionMagic (~$50 at CompUSA) can > copy partitions from one disk to another, I think. > It can also resize partitions without the tedious > back-and-forth required in steps 7 and 8 above. > PartitionMagic also handles linux partitions and > ext2 fs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick > Shepherd > Sent: Fri 11/5/2004 7:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RLUG] Larger hard drive > > I have a customer who wants to move to a larger hard > drive on his Fedora > Core 2 box. I have tried (and failed) to use Ghost > on Linux partitions in > the past despite what the documentation claims. > With that in mind is there > an effective way to copy an existing drive to a new, > larger drive without > screwing things up? If the partitions were NTFS or > FAT32 I could use Ghost > but EXT2/3 gives me more of a challenge. > > > > Of course I need to take advantage of the entire new > drive once the > migration takes place so it cannot just copy the > partition. > > > > Rick Shepherd > > President > > Synux Technologies Incorporated > > www.synux.com > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reno: 775-337-1466 > > South Lake Tahoe 530-542-9473 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
