On Sunday 05 December 2004 23:24, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to move my current system to a new PC. I'm not sure the best > way to do this. > > What I was thinking was to move the harddrive to the new computer and let > fedora recognize and update the new hardware. Will this work? The 'newer' > PC is an IBM NetVista 6792-3MU. Should. I would expect it to, but sometimes I expect too much. > > Assuming the above will work, I then like to add an additional harddrive > and move /home and /var to the new drive. Can I just format and partition > the new drive and move the files from the old drive to the new drive? Yep. Then, for backup poiposes: cd / mv var Var mv home Home mkdir var home # edit fstab as needed mount -a Note that this is not the only order; you can do renaming and mounting first then copy. > > Then, I would also like to increase the swap space on the old drive to > double the RAM. Can the swap be resized? Umm. Where is swap now? Where will the space for resizing come from? I would leave that bit alone for a while until you're confident all is well. If space in /Var permits: cd /Var dd if=/dev/zero bs= $((1024*1024)) count=128 of=swapfile mkswap swapfile swapon swapfile Use man to inform yourself. If not in /Var, then in /var. Note I do not believe in swap _partitions_. Nor do I think that swap size double that of RAM beats trebling of RAM. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
