hi,

I think it's better to use LVM to manage your partitions, it will be
much less painful..

Wang
在 2008-05-08四的 16:20 +1000，Adam Carter写道：
> I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived
> today.
>
> Old setup; 60 gig drive;
> /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number)
> /dev/hda2 = swap
> /dev/hda3 = /
>
> New setup; 250 gig drive
> /dev/hda1 = / (including /home)
> /dev/hda2 = swap
>
> Here's my plan;
> - make a new lilo.conf entry to boot off /dev/hda1, then run 'lilo -v'
> - boot knoppix
> - dump /dev/hda3 (/) to USB external drive with
> 'mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/root ; rsync -a /mnt/root /usbdrive/'
> - dump /dev/hda1 (/home) to USB drive with
> 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/home ; rsync -a /mnt/home /usbdrive/'
> - dump MBR to USB drive with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/usbdrive/mbr_backup
> bs=512 count=1'
>
> - power down, swap hda to new drive, boot knoppix again
> - add boot record without partition table, 'dd if=/whatever/mbr_backup
> of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1'
> - 'fdisk /dev/hda', create one linux partition using most of the disk
> and one linux swap partition
> - put filesystem on /dev/hda1 with 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda1'
> - dump old / to /dev/hda1 with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/root ; rsync
> -a /usbdrive/root/* /mnt/root'
> - dump old /home onto /dev/hda1 with 'rsync
> -a /usbdrive/home /mnt/root'
> - create swap 'mkswap /dev/hda2'
>
> then reboot and use the new lilo entry that points to /dev/hda1.
>
> Will it work?
>
> tnx
>
>
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