How to move my / partition

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Feb 16 16:08:11 UTC 2010


On 02/16/2010 08:29 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
> 
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is running?
> Unfortunately the CD drive does not appear to be working,
> and the machine (an Asus-P2B-LS) does not support booting from USB.
> 
> I could download and install something like Knoppix,
> if it is possible to boot from it with grub?
> 
> Any help or suggestions gratefully received.
> 
You may want to take a look at the gparted project - they have hard
drive install documentation as well, as CD/USB/PXE boot images.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livehd.php

Mikkel
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