>>>>> "John" == John McQuillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a
John> larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with
John> larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions
John> from the old drive one at a time with Norton Ghost. After
All this `clone' operation did was copy the data. So now you have
small filesystems on large partitions. I very much doubt if *any*
Norton utility understands whatever filesystem type your installation
uses, so as to change its layout to fill the new partition.
Your best bet is to throw away what you've done and start again, this
time using tar, cpio or similar to clone the filesystems.
For example:
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hdb1
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hdb2
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/home
(assuming you have a /home partition on /dev/hdb2, a root partition on
/dev/hdb1 and you want to use XFS as your filesystem)
find / -depth -print | cpio -pdm --sparse /mnt
(edit /mnt/etc/fstab to swap /dev/hda and /dev/hdb)
umount /mnt/home
umount /mnt
Then edit /etc/lilo to boot with root=/dev/hdb1
Peter C
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