Tino and Jens,
# fdisk -l (with comments about what is what)
/dev/sda1 1 243 1951866 82 Linux swap /
Solaris (SWAP)
/dev/sda2 * 244 729 3903795 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/sda3 730 3161 19535040 83 Linux (/)
/dev/sda4 3162 30318 218138602+ 83 Linux (/var)
I'm not that worried with the partition table because I can just delete
the partition, create it again with the new size and use resize2fs to
resize the file system. Usually I do that with virtual machines and it
works, shouldn't be different with a real hardware, right!?
I'm really worried to know it Linux would be able to read the old disk
connected on a different SATA port.
Cupertino, I got worried with your solution because I don't know is I
can expand the virtual disk and things like that, I don't have much
expertise with RAID controllers. And if something goes wrong (read: if I
make something wrong), I will loose everything. I do have backup and
everything, but I prefer a short downtime.
Thanks again.
Fábio Catunda.
Tino Schwarze wrote:
Hi Fabio,
do you have some kind of LVM or other means of volume management in
place? What's your partition setup like? Please post output of
df -h.
Tino.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:28:58AM -0300, Fabio Catunda wrote:
Thanks for all responses.
Now I see that I am in trouble.
I really cannot install everything from zero, it will take too long and
might not work.
I would like to know your opinion about the following procedure:
1 - Shutdown
2 - Remove both disks
3 - Plug both 2TB new disks and create a new virtual disk on the controller
4 - Plug one of the old 250GB disks in a separate SATA connector
5 - dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda (where sdb is the old disk and sda is the
new virtual disk)
6 - fstab, resize2fs, etc, etc...!
I really don't know if the OS will recognize and be able to read the old
disk plugged in another SATA connector.
Thanks in advance.
Fábio Catunda.
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