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.
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