On 17/08/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Garry Harthill wrote: > > I want to move all data currently on the / mountpoint to another disk > > and then remove the old data. (i just bought a faster disk) > > Is this a simple matter of putting the new disk in. Mounting it > > somewhere. Copying data to the new drive. Altering fstab to point / to > > /dev/hdc2 (for example) then rebooting? Is there anything else i need > > to consider? > > This should work, but if you're using LVM there may be an easier way. > Are you using LVM? I'm not using LVM > > /boot is mounted on another partition on the slow first disk and will > > be staying. What changes will be needed to grub.conf. At the moment i > > have "root=LABEL=/". What does this need to be changed to? > > "root=/dev/hdc2=/"? > > If /dev/hdc2 is the new root, you'd want "root=/dev/hdc2"; the "LABEL=" > syntax instructs the kernel to read the filesystem labels to find the > root partition. Alternatively you could create the new root filesystem > with a different label (e.g. "newroot") and then change the grub.conf > entry to have "root-LABEL=newroot". Will i need to copy the present root to the new partition from a rescue disk because of open files, etc? Or can it be done at full runlevel 3? I haven't used the rescue disk very much. Will it mount everything in /etc/fstab rw or will i have to do this manual?
