Hadders, please turn off html for the list. Many people never see html messages as they are treated as spam. Anne On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:01, Hadders wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > Robin Laing wrote: > <blockquote > cite="mid1164834233.23521.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:55 +0800, Hadders wrote: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">Hi all, > I have an old 120GB hard disk, and a much newer, 320GB hard disk. > > I'd like to migrate my linux (FC5) setup to this newer disk, and also > want to enlarge the partitions. > > This may seem naive but can I.... > > i) Boot up using the FC5 linux rescue mode > ii) Manually partition the new disk, using fdisk > iii) Use e2label and set the labels to be the same on the new disk > partitions as the old, what is the command to tell me the current labels? > iii) Mount both the old and new disks partitions into temporary > directories I create > iv) Do a 'cp -Rv /old-part/* /new-part/' command? Will that get ALL > files, including hidden dot files? > v) Edit the new copies, fstab and alter the mount points accordingly, > that aren't using labels? > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > Thank You. > Hadders > > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap=""><!----> > My first question is why migrate? I ask this as disk space is always > short down the road. Install the second disk and move your /home to the > new disk. Now you have 320GB for your /home and use the 120 GB for > other purposes. > > I have a blank partition for the next version of FC to be installed on. > My /home is mounted on four SATA drives that are in a RAID 1 setup using > LVM. > > Just my pennies worth. > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <br> > You make a good point. I guess it's more hang over from the old days > and figuring it would be easier to have everything in one place.<br> > Was planning on taking the existing 120GB and making it an external > drive for backup/dumping stuff to, then using the new 320GB for dual > boot, much like the 120, but bigger.<br> > <br> > I'll ponder this some more, but I still think I'm leaning to migration.<br> > <br> > H<br> > </body> > </html>
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