Dear All, I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things. I need this to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have too much time for messing around.
My current partition table looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 9729 77601982+ 83 Linux I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 being a lot bigger. So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc. Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? 2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? Here's my current grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my fingers :-) Will it work? Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
