Re: Moving apps to new drive

Randy Day wrote:

> Well, after much kicking and screaming, I've got
> a working Linux box. I finally got Ubuntu to
> install, which ironically is causing my new problem.
>
> I had intended to have an 850meg drive as an OS/swap

WOOOW. I guess you can make a fortune on ebay with such drives still in good
condition. There are a lot of legacy laboratory/industrial/whatever systems
still running ISA mainboards which won't recognize the $bigdisks you can
get nowadays :).

> drive, and a larger drive for apps & data. I ran the
> install with only one drive, not realizing Ubuntu
> would (try to) install *everything* on the drive
> without asking.
>
> Now I have a small drive, completely full, and a big,
> empty drive.
>
But then, you notice it's "a tad" slow, do you?

> How difficult is it to shift all the non-OS stuff to
> the big drive? How do you tell what's what?
>
While a 2nd drive (on the other ide cable) as swap is a good idea, it won't
give you any speed gain when using such an outdated (no-dma, low-rpm,
high-latency-heavy-heads) drive.

> I can re-run the install off CD if necessary, but
> can I reconfigure it if I do?
>
You may want to use your ubuntu in "rescue" mode, or boot from a knoppix cd
where you can also have a nice gui, with both drives attached.
Now since ubuntu chose your 850MB brick, I guess it is on the first IDE
cable or master, while the bigdrive is 2nd cable or/and slave.
You will want to become root on the knoppix (sudo su) and start gparted from
that terminal session then, and have fun partitioning the 2nd bigger drive,
and finally _copying_ over (cp -a is preferred) your data.
Then, after unmounting/shutting down the computer, move the bigger drive to
the place/cable where the 850MB one was, and - no it won't boot yet - again
start knoppox.
Make it mount your bigdrives root partition, chroot there and run
grub-install or lilo (whatever ubuntu uses). Exit, unmount, restart from
HD. You should be set then.
Btw., probably reinstall is a lot faster, but that way you learn much
more :)
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