On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:33:46PM -0400, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting myself a new 80 GB drive for my laptop which currently has a 40 GB > drive. I have a USB 2.0 port as well as a FireWire card in the laptop, so I > have full access to both drives at the same time. > The current drive has the /boot, / and swap partition on it. The new drive > should also have all three partitions, just that the root (/) partition > should be larger than the current one, the other 2 partitions can stay the > same. > I do not want to re-install FC4 from scratch as I have the system nicely tunes > to do what I want, how I want it. I take it you plan to remove the 40 GB drive and replace it with the 80. So you need a hard drive transplant. Rather than get fancy, I would use fdisk to create the partitions I want (think about using some of that 80 GB for a separate /home partition). Then build file systems as approriate. I would then mount each one as appropriate and copy files with "cp -rp...". (I know, folks, thre are other ways to do it. This is the easy way.) One reason that may fail is if your present fstab selects partitions with labels. The work-around is to change the entries in the copy of fstab to use the device file names (/dev/hda3, etc.) instead. That leaves getting grub installed on the new drive. "dd"ing that won't work, the geometry/LBA addressing will be off. Instead, build a boot disk CD-ROM on the old drive. Swap the drives. Use the CD-ROM to boot the new drive, and (as root) run "grub-install". Then carefully package up the old drive and put it away. You have an archived snapshot as of the date you stopped using it. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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