Re: [newbie] New hard drive
On Friday 04 July 2003 09:18 pm, Jon wrote: HI, One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks. Here your reference Jon. This should work for fat32 partitions too. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New hard drive
Hi Jon, If you just want to copy and expand the contents of the old drive to the larger new drive, Drive Copy does an excellant job. Bob Jon wrote: One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks. Jon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New hard drive
Hi Stephen and others, Thanks for the reply. It sounds promising. what, just /home directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in the first place? The disk itself consists of several mount points. One of the mount points is /home, others include /web (for web stuff), /warehouse and a mount point for windows crap (i.e. the games - what else would you use windows for :-)). Oh, a small partition for swap as well. Nothing particularly significant - just a pain if I had to re-install from scratch. Since I have a new, larger disk I'm at least planning on tarring up all the Linux mount points and placing it on a my initial disk (not the one being replaced). I'll then replace the dodgy disk with the good one. I am presuming I will need to reformat the disk and since it is a much larger disk I will look at repartitioning (to devote more space to /home, the games partition, etc). I have never really done this (I usually only touch this when I am upgrading the O/S and then I leave it up to Mandrake to work this out) but I have a vague understanding of how this will be done and was seeking something more concrete. Although I am comfortable with the Linux side of this (because it's such a wonderful thing) I'm not so sure about the windows side and was hoping there may be a set of instructions that shows how you can do all of this from the Linux side (i.e. don't have to switch back and forth from Linux to Windows). Hope that makes sense. Jon. On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:18, Jon wrote: HI, One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks. Jon. There are several strategies that you can follow - but I'd need to clarify what you mean by copy the data over - what, just /home directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in the first place? Just checking mate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New hard drive
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:18, Jon wrote: HI, One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks. Jon. There are several strategies that you can follow - but I'd need to clarify what you mean by copy the data over - what, just /home directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in the first place? Just checking mate. -- Sat Jul 5 14:15:00 EST 2003 14:15:00 up 3 days, 3:35, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.27, 0.26 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * What they say: What they mean: New Different colors from previous version. All New Not compatible with previous version. Exclusive Nobody else has documentation. Unmatched Almost as good as the competition. Design Simplicity The company wouldn't give us any money. Fool-proof OperationAll parameters are hard-coded. Advanced Design Nobody really understands it. Here At LastDidn't get it done on time. Field TestedWe don't have any simulators. Years of DevelopmentFinally got one to work. Unprecedented Performance Nothing ever ran this slow before. Revolutionary Disk drives go 'round and 'round. Futuristic Only runs on a next generation supercomputer. No Maintenance Impossible to fix. Performance Proven Worked through Beta test. Meets Tough Quality Standards It compiles without errors. Satisfaction Guaranteed We'll send you another pack if it fails. Stock Item We shipped it before and can do it again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, images and videofiles to be accessible from Linux. Linux DOES support FAT32 using the VFAT filesystem type. Don't know about NTFS, though. John
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, images and videofiles to be accessible from Linux. Linux DOES support FAT32 using the VFAT filesystem type. Don't know about NTFS, though. John Haven't actually done this myself, but Linux does support NTFS read mode, and the write mode is in alpha/beta mode, i.e. use at own risk. The read-only mode is reported to be fairly stable, though. I believe you would neet to recompile your kernel to enable these options though. Monte
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
Daniel Woods wrote: Is there any Linux utility like Ghost and ImageCast on windows which will make image files of partitions and drives so that you can re-install or copy to another location ? Don't know of any Linux utility that does that but there must be something out there. I use EZ-DRIVE to move DOS partitions but it won't recognize non-DOS partitions. I simply boot the machine with the EZ-DRIVE disk and go to the advanced features section. No, I don't install EZ-DRIVE and don't recommend its use to run the hard drive. Frank Kamp
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
DriveImage will make images of ext2 format partitions, but has to be run from Winders, then it drops to DOS to do the work. fkamp wrote: Daniel Woods wrote: Is there any Linux utility like Ghost and ImageCast on windows which will make image files of partitions and drives so that you can re-install or copy to another location ? Don't know of any Linux utility that does that but there must be something out there. I use EZ-DRIVE to move DOS partitions but it won't recognize non-DOS partitions. I simply boot the machine with the EZ-DRIVE disk and go to the advanced features section. No, I don't install EZ-DRIVE and don't recommend its use to run the hard drive. Frank Kamp
