The Sunday 2004-08-15 at 20:15 -0600, Steve Lett wrote:
Still learning SuSE but have been playing 'round a while and am ready to go hog wild. I have a 13Gb drive which is the system in it's entirety and it's nearly full. Have just received my new 160Gb (yee ha!) and want to start with a clean installation. But I don't want to archive off my entire /home directory contents to CD first if I don't have to. It would take probably 10 discs....
Backups are a nice thing to have, in any case. You can make compressed CDs, anyway.
I tried an experiment of this once before and scared myself silly. I installed a spare 2Gb drive I had and somehow managed to make it take over as my \home folder, but of course then I could not access anything in the original \home folder. That is to say many years worth of data.... not a good feeling. But I found someone who told me a fix and after I did that (have forgotten what it was) and took out the 2Gb and rebooted, I had access to the data again. WHEW! Don't want to do that again.
Read this: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz alternatively: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html (if "not found", install it from the dvd). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson