Re: What is the best way to upgrade a drive?

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:39:03 -0600, John wrote:


After a long time it has come to a point that I want to replace a hard drive
on my Suse machine with one that is much larger. The computer has four hard
drives hda hdb hdc and hdd.

The drive I want to replace is hda2 which contains /home and /boot. In
retrospect I think it was not such a good idea to keep /boot and /home on
the same drive....

My question is, how to replace hda as painlessly as possible without loosing
data or trashing the entire sytem? The machine running Suse 10.1 and I
don't plan on upgrading until after 10.3 is released.


The currently installed drives are all IDE but the machine is SATA capable.
I have not yet decided if the new drive will be EIDE or SATA. I'm not sure
if it's a good idea to mix the two so I am leaning towards EIDE at the
moment.

Here is my current setup:

john@uisce:~/doc> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 38G 23G 15G 61% /
udev 1.3G 300K 1.3G 1% /dev
/dev/hda1 118M 40M 78M 34% /boot
/dev/hda2 75G 63G 13G 84% /home
/dev/hdd2 18G 16G 1.4G 93% /local
/dev/hdc2 15G 1.1G 14G 7% /srv
/dev/hdc3 7.3G 174M 7.1G 3% /tmp
/dev/hdc1 15G 1.5G 14G 10% /var

hdd1 is swap 20GB

System:
uname -a Linux uisce 2.6.16.27-0.6-default #1 Wed Dec 13 09:34:50 UTC 2006
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



Thanks
John

I recently replaced the 40gb drive in my laptop with a 120gb drive. What I
did was: booted a Live CD; copied the partition table info; backed all
partitions of interest to an external USB drive using partimage; swapped
drives; booted Live CD; copied partition table data to new drive; restored
partitions fro USB drive using partimage. At this point I had a mirror
image of the original disk. I used the Live CD with Gparted to resize the
partitions.

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