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Hi,
1) Put the new hard drive in as a slave.
2) Used parted to create the filesystem. (parted
also has the ability to
copy a filesystem but I couldn't get this to work)
You could of course als use fdisk to partition your new drive and put
Greetings great wizards,
Just a regular newbie eager to hear your advice :)
I currently have my Red Hat Linux 9.0 instalation on a
10GB HD, but, I want to change this instalation to a
40GB HD.
I want to know if it is posible to 'transfer' my
current instalation to the new drive in a way that I
Thanks ALL for helping, I'll get hands on this issue
next weekend!
Andre, there are no unnecessary comments, all tips are
valid because is always a good idea to have more than
one aproach to a problem. Thanks! :)
Peace out,
=
Sergio Espinoza Dien
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I just did this a week or so ago. The way I did it was this:
1) Put the new hard drive in as a slave.
2) Used parted to create the filesystem. (parted also has the ability to
copy a filesystem but I couldn't get this to work)
3) Copy the file system with the cp command. I can't remember if
Sergio Espinoza wrote:
Thanks a lot for the tips AragonX!
I do have Ghost 2003 :)
Please forgive my ignorance, if I use Ghost it will
copy a partition of my old drive (10GB), what's the
best way (or tools) to 'resize' that old partition to
the 40GB of the new drive without risking my
Thanks a lot for the tips AragonX!
I do have Ghost 2003 :)
Please forgive my ignorance, if I use Ghost it will
copy a partition of my old drive (10GB), what's the
best way (or tools) to 'resize' that old partition to
the 40GB of the new drive without risking my data?
Again thanks!
Sergio
Some versions of ghost could only copy a Linux partition. They would not
be able to resize it. I can't remember what versions. All you would have
to do in this case is use parted though. That is what the tool was
designed for. :)
quote who=Mark Haney
Sergio Espinoza wrote:
Thanks a lot for
Mark Haney wrote:
Sergio Espinoza wrote:
Ghost will resize to fit the entire drive if you so wish it. I've used
it since version 3.0 and never had a problem with ghost drives of one
size and ghosting down onto drives of another size be it bigger or
smaller.
Forgive me for the intrusion, but I
