move data to larger drive

[Jim Higson]

On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:34, Timothy Payne wrote:
> I have a machine running RH 7.3 but the disk is about full.  I would
> like to move the data to a larger drive then upgrade that drive with FC2
> keeping the original drive intact so I can just plug it back in if
> things go wrong.
>
> So the question is if I copy the old to the new will the partitions
> expand to fill the space, if not how.

Depending on how you configured the computer, you should be ok just installing 
FC2 and then copy the home dirs accross. This will preserve all user settings 
and files.

Of course, if you've been tinkering with system settings you'll have to copy 
accross certain parts of /etc too.