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

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO, minimum of 3 partitions : 120 MB swap, 1+ GB / (<=root), balance
/home.  With this setup, you can re-format / without losing your
personal source directories, you should be keeping a copy of your scripts
somewhere in your /home directory ( NOT in root's home directory ), etc.
More partitions than 3, after 6 months or so your will be a little fuzzy
about what you wanted to put where.
Enjoy the new space !

On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> what partitioning scheme should i use?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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