Dear All,
Thanks for the advice. I just successfully completed the transfer of my
gentoo installation to the new hard drive. I was able to install grub on the
external drive successfully, obviating the need to boot with the live cd
after swaping the drives.
I did however have one problem with
On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote:
It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb`
and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it
with the same start point (and a later end
on 12/27/2007 11:05 PM Matthew R. Lee wrote the following:
On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote:
It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb`
and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then
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
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it?
If you are increasing the amount of RAM, and you currently do fine on
512 MB of swap, you should be OK. That said, if you are getting a ton
more space, what is 1 GB to dedicate to swap just in case?
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
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
Dale wrote:
cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems
yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by.
If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your
grub.conf and fstab should be fine.
You will need to install
I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same
sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them.
Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces):
mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst
mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd /
on 12/24/2007 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same
sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them.
Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces):
mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src
On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems
yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by.
If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your
grub.conf and
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems
yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by.
If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:52:30 +0200, Thanasis wrote:
mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd /mnt/src tar cfp - . |tar xfp -
-C /mnt/dst tar cfp - . |tar xfp -
-C /mnt/dst
You don't need to mess around with bind mounting /, just do
cd / tar clfp - ...
For that matter, the f option is redundant, as
On 24 Dec 2007, at 17:06, Randy Barlow wrote:
... You will probably need to use
grub-install/setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda
of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?)
No, you're correct - `dd` would copy the boot-sector.
But it would also leave all partitions at their
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?
I just did this. My method:
Duplicate the partitions, file
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote:
It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb`
and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it
with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem
would then need to be resized.
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