On Sunday 28 September 2003 03:23 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: > When I first installed gentoo, I put it on the last partition of my > drive, using reiserfs on hda7. Now I want to move it to hda5 (formerely > redhat) using ext3 (hda6 is swap by the way) > > Is it possible to do this? > > Tom >
Absolutely... There's a "how-to" on the LDP titled "hard disk upgrade" at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/ Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html (beware wordwrap) It very tediously describes how to move a bootable linux partion from one hard drive to another and keep it bootable... I use the procedure a lot and have most of it done via bash scripts... :') In your case, copying from one partition to another would be a piece of cake. :') As you move your data from the reiser partition to the ext3 partition, the ext3 journal would be build as it copies... The only hitch I see in your plan... if you're going to boot from your new ext3 partition, be positive that ext3 is built into the kernel and not built as a module. Having ext3 as a module will prevent your from booting your computer... the ext3 support has to be kernelized so it can read the partition as it load resources. -- ****************************************************************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 2:39pm up 80 days, 37 min, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
