New hard disk

[Kjel Anderson]

Ben,

Thanks for the response. I do have everything backed up, although I can always 
use the encouragement. I'm at the cp -a step at the moment. These drives are 
actually identical as far as the interface is concerned. I put the system 
together with an 80 GB drive about eight weeks ago because I was feeling 
broke. I'm adding the 250 because 80 really isn't enough these days (I still 
find this hard to believe). My main concern is permissions on the home 
directory. I think that I can just adjust the fstab entry and have it all 
work o.k. Also, Partition Magic is only about 85% Magic. The other 15% of the 
time it is the spawn of hell. I'll be sure to let you guys know if I screw 
this up.

Thanks,

Kjel

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 3:19 pm, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Kjel Anderson <kjel.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I currently have an 80 GB HDD ... I just purchased a 250 GB ...
>
>   You'd prolly get better performance by moving the entire system to
> the new drive (new drives are are almost always faster than anything
> not made in the past 20 minutes) and using the old drive as a
> secondary drive.  That's a little trickier to do, of course.  You have
> to worry about boot loaders.  It's not too hard, tho.  Yell if you're
> interested.
>
> > I think that I can resize the windows partition using partition magic.
>
>   First: Always, *ALWAYS* make a backup of everything before messing
> with partitions, filesystems, and/or disks.
>
>   PartitionMagic can handle FAT, NTFS, Linux partitions, so you're in
> good shape there.
>
>   Quick procedure:
>
> 1. Make a backup.
> 2. Partition the new drive however you like.  Include a Linux partition.
> 3. Boot your current Linux install.
> 4. Switch to single user mode (run "init 1" as root).  This makes sure
> there are no files open under the /home directory.
> 5. Mount the soon-to-be home partition on the new drive on /mnt/tmp or
> something like that.  (Yell if you need help with the mount commands.)
> 6. cp -a /home/* /mnt/tmp/
> 7. mv /home /oldhome
> 8.  umount /mnt/tmp
> 9. Edit /etc/fstab and add or change a line for the new drive's new
> /home partition.  Yell if you need help with this.
> 10. mount /home
> 11. Make sure it mounted okay.
> 12. Switch back to multiuser mode.  Login.  Make sure everything looks
> good. 13. After you're confident everything moved over okay, do "rm -rf
> /oldhome" to free up the disk space.
> 14. Use Partition Magic to shrink the Linux partition(s) on the first
> disk and then grow the 'doze partitions.
>
>   Did I mention that backups are important?
>
> -- Ben
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