Re: [SLE] Upgrade Hard Drive - hda

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The Tuesday 2006-05-30 at 21:54 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:

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* When you move a Linux drive from one position to another, the only thing
that /should/ change is the device label, i.e. if hdb1 is 'swap' and hdb2 is
'/', and you move/add things so the drive becomes 'hdd'... 'swap' becomes
'hdd1' and '/' becomes 'hdd2', and so on. Therefore, in each root partition
on the drives that will be affected, you would need to also change the
appropriate entries in /etc/fstab from 'hdbX' to 'hddX'. These changes plus
updating the bootloader should make it possible to boot into the new
configuration without difficulty.

If you use partition labels, you can move the drives around without any
editing in /etc/fstab. Like:

LABEL=big_home /home xfs noatime 1 2


There are some exceptions, though: swap partitions aren't labeled, for
instance.


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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson

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