On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:09:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 06:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: >> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:07:30PM -0800, Anita Rohani wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> A few hard disk partitions on our current Debian system are close to >>> becoming full. I would like to install an addtional hard disk and >>> extend the partitions on the current disk to the new disk. Is it >>> possible to do so and are there any instructions avaliable on how to >>> add and configure additional hard disks on Debian? >>> >> check the archives. i got a lot of good help recently on migrating a >> partition. the course i chose was a mixture of tips. your ideal >> solution might be other that mine. search the archives for partition >> migration. >> >> essentially, create a filesystem on the new disk, set up a mount >> point, mount it, cp -r the data, edit fstab to reflect the new >> arrangement. don't delete the original until you're sure the new >> partition is extant. >> > > You most likely want cp -a rather than cp -r.
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