Re: [aclug-L] BRAND SPANKIN' NEW HDD!!!!!!!!!

["Jesse Kaufman" <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what partitioning scheme should i use?


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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [aclug-L] BRAND SPANKIN' NEW HDD!!!!!!!!!


>Indeed, this will work.  Another solution is to copy over only /home
>and /etc, taking note of /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab as two that may
>have been modified since the old system.  If your system is setup
>properly and follows the FHS (RedHat is compliant enough for this to
>work), this will get all of your system configuration information
>plus your own data files.  A few other directories that some people
>need to copy include /root, /opt, and /usr/local.
>
>John
>
>Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> sohel wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Jeremy,
>> >
>> > So is there a way to get around to this problem? What would you
>> > recommend?
>> >
>>
>> Uh.. Why make this so difficult?  Seems to me you could just add the
>> hard drive to the box, crank up linux, use fdisk to set up your new
>> drive with your desired partitions, make file systems and mount them.
>>
>> Then, using tar, just copy the old partitions to the new ones.
>>
>> The only problem you may face is how to copy the "/" partition w/o
>> getting all the systems you have mounted (but I beleive you can get tar
>> to behave properly somehow).  Worst case is that you umount everything
>> but the target and copy each directory in / seperatly...
>>
>> Once you get things copied, you will have to adjust (on the "new" drive)
>> a few things so your new mount points are correctly set up for the new
>> /dev/hdb? one you fdisk'ed and copied. (This is in /etc/fstab on your
>> new "/" partition on your new drive..)  Also edit your /etc/lilo.conf
>> file on the new partition to point to the correct "/" partition
>> (boot=/dev/hda ==> boot=/dev/hdb).
>>
>> Unless I missed something, you should have a fully functional system on
>> your new drive now, except for getting LILO to boot it for you.
>>
>> Before you continue any further... Make sure you have a way to boot from
>> a floppy or CD, just incase you make a mistake with the new lilo
>> config.  (And test the recovery disks to be sure they work!).
>>
>> Then modify your old lilo.conf (saving the old one, just in case) so it
>> points to the new drive as "/" and pointing to the kernel image on the
>> new drive (you do have the new "/" mounted right?).  Run lilo and reboot
>> (assuming no errors).
>>
>> Once the system comes up again, verify that you are running on the new
>> drive, and that all your partitions are mounted correctly, then run lilo
>> again once you are sure things are OK to remove the old system from the
>> map.
>>
>> You have just cloned your system onto the new drive...  Once you are
>> VERY sure you don't need the backup any more, feel free to run fdisk
>> again and remove all the linux from your old hard drive...
>>
>> -= bob =-
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