On Wed, 19 Mar, Taylor Mr wrote:

Hi all:

This is a simple one and I assume I will be blasted for it but..I have a working system with a smallish drive. I want to change it over (and use the old drive in another machine) to a new drive without too much headache. What is the easiest procedure?

Paul

Paul, Let me start the ball rolling. A year or so ago I wanted to dedicate a HDD to running Squid. These are the notes I kept from that exercise. I think I was using Redhat 6 at the time. The disk was already in the machine. Logged on as root. (Lines starting with # are commands to run) # fdisk /dev/hdb You get a colon prompt. Type p to print out current partition table. I noted down start [1], end [525[, blocks [4144770], ID [83], system [linux] from this info - numbers in [ ] are what I noted down. Type n at this colon to start the dialogue to create a new partition. The information you noted will allow you to make decisions on partitioning the drive. # mkdir /usr/local/squid Edit /etc/fstab to give /dev/hdb2 (this is the partition you created on hdb) a directory where it mounts - in my case /usr/local/squid. Create the filesystem for /dev/hdb2 with # mke2fs -c /dev/hdb2 4144770 This 4144770 number comes from blocks from the partition table info. My notes do say that maybe I should have done this straight after creating the partition with fdisk.) Then to make the changes to /etc/fstab take effect do: # /bin/mount -a I'd appreciate it if other people could critique and add to this. Nigel -- Nigel Pauli Network Manager St. John's School, Northwood