Re: Moving Fedora 14 to another disk

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"I understand that I will also have to move the /boot partition as well."

In this case, you may have to do grub-install too. Tell the MBR that you have new /boot.

--Kurian.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Chuck Bruno <cbruno4503@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gregory, thanks for the information, good stuff.

Chuck

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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:48:12 -0500
> Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 14 to another disk
> From: redwolfe@xxxxxxxxx
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Chuck Bruno
> > wrote:
>
>
> I need to move Fedora 14 to another hard drive to make more room for
> Windows. My current Fedora configuration consists of a boot partition,
> and an lvm2 partiton consisting of root, home, and swap. I have
> installed a 2nd hard drive and plan to use lvm vgextend, lvm pvmove and
> lvm vgreduce to move Fedora to the 2nd drive. I understand that I will
> also have to move the /boot partition as well.
>
> My questions are:
>
> How to I tell grub where the system is now located, or will I have to
> re-install grub?
> Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to change the "root (hd0,0)" line to
> point at the second drive
>
>
> Do I simply create new mount points for /root and /home?
> Yes and no. The mount points will move with the filesystems as
> you migrate. Check /etc/fstab to
> ensure that the volumes are mounted via UUID. Check the volume
> UUIDs with the blkid command
> to see if they changed.
>
> How do I tell the “system” where the new swap is located?
> edit /etc/fstab to point at the new partition.
>
> Are there other considerations that I need to look into?
> should be relatively straighforward once the moving is done. If
> you can, take backups for safety before moving.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
> You're welcome. Hope This helps (HTH)
>

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