Tom Nielsen wrote:

So I just went down and bought myself a 40gb drive the other day. My old drive used to be 10gb. My problem is how do I move everything from my old drive to my new drive? On my old drive I have:

hda1 - Windows (ya, it's for games) hda2 - Swap hda3 - /home hda4 - /

I want to copy over everything, but I want to have more space on hda3 and hda4. How can I do this? Someone told me about an "adding a new drive" from the SuSE portal, but that didn't help. It only overs one partition, or should I say, I didn't understand how to do work the whole thing based on that article.

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html Related stuff at URL below. -- "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html

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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:11:10 -0800
Tom Nielsen  wrote:

> So I just went down and bought myself a 40gb drive the other day. My
> old drive used to be 10gb. My problem is how do I move everything from
> my old drive to my new drive? On my old drive I have:
> 
> hda1 - Windows (ya, it's for games)
> hda2 - Swap
> hda3 - /home
> hda4 - /
> 
> I want to copy over everything, but I want to have more space on hda3
> and hda4. How can I do this? Someone told me about an "adding a new
> drive" from the SuSE portal, but that didn't help. It only overs one
> partition, or should I say, I didn't understand how to do work the
> whole thing based on that article.
My suggestions:
1. put your new drive in as the secondary master.
2. Allocate your new partitions. I suggest that you use an extended
partition, and don't use physical. (eg. use hda5 ... hda ...). 
3. You can copy your / and /home partions to the second drive using the
cp command (cp -a). 
4. If you want to boot Windows from the same drive, you can also
allocate space for it, but you must subsequently run the DOS sys
utility. (I've done this a few times with Win98, 98SE, and ME). 
5. Don't forget to set up GRUB or LILO. 
6. You can subsequently move the larger drive as the primary, but it
will work fine as the secondary master and Linux will boot fine. 
7. If you keep the current 10GB drive as the Windows boot drive, you can
then delete the Linux partitions and give Windows more space. 

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Jerry Feldman 
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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