Kurian, Thank you for the info. Hopefully, I won't have to but at least it won't surprise me if I do. Chuck ________________________________ > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:16:44 +0530 > Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 14 to another disk > From: kurianmthayil@xxxxxxxxx > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > "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 > > wrote: > > Gregory, thanks for the information, good stuff. > > Chuck > > ________________________________ > > 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) > > > > -- users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To > unsubscribe or > > change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or > change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
