Migrating to a new disk

Thu Nov 30 08:59:35 UTC 2006

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:
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> Robin Laing wrote:
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>   <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:55 +0800, Hadders wrote:
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>     <pre wrap="">Hi all,
>   I have an old 120GB hard disk, and a much newer, 320GB hard disk.
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> I'd like to migrate my linux (FC5) setup to this newer disk, and also
> want to enlarge the partitions.
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> This may seem naive but can I....
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> 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?
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> Any pointers will be appreciated.
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> Thank You.
> Hadders
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Just my pennies worth.
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> You make&nbsp; 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>
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> I'll ponder this some more, but I still think I'm leaning to migration.<br>
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> H<br>
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