On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:28, Robert Lewis wrote:
Does anyone have a script or iron clad step-by-step instructions how one can move their current installation from a smaller hard drive (80-GB in my case) to a larger hard drive (160-GB)?
The archives for this list give many recommendations for doing this. In short, the general consensus is simply this: Do a clean install and use tar to copy your /home partition's data to the new drive. Copying your whole installation is, IMO, a path fraught with potholes. It's normally a simple process to reinstall the base OS, keeping your /home data. If you have a space for your old 80GB drive in your system, you might even want to convert that to your new /home. <can't resist> Then again, since the Suse 10.1 update tools are so hosed, doing a new install and getting the proper updates probably is as much, or more, trouble than using tools like 'dd' to copy the old partition's data to the new drive. </can't resist> -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts