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?
/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".
Paul.
