Re: q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> So, basically, I want the system to reside on SCSI and the
> not-so-valuable data on IDE. Does something like
>
> SCSI:
> sda1 /boot 25 MB
> sda2 / 100 MB
> sda3 /usr 1200 MB
> sda4 /var 840 MB (/tmp -> /var/tmp)
>
> IDE:
> hda1 /home ~5 GB, salvaging current hda1 - hda7
> hda8 /mp3 19 GB, current hda8[0]
>
> seem like a reasonable scheme?
It makes more sense to put /usr on the ide disk and /home on
scsi, but that is details.
> 0: And, regarding the IDE-disk: Is this possible _without_ losing the
> data on the current /mp3 (hda8)? Eg, deleting hda1-7, re-creating a
> large hda1, ?cause I don?t have any means to backup 15 GB and I surely
> don?t want to re-convert my whole cd-collection to mp3...
Probably only available in testing and unstable:
dpkg -p ext2resize
Package: ext2resize
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 160
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.14-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97)
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/admin/ext2resize_1.1.14-5.deb
Size: 67532
MD5sum: 63ebfee915935c8a7eb48afe7551ee38
Description: an ext2 filesystem resizer
ext2resize resizes ext2 filesystems. This is useful if you run out of space
on one partition, or have too much free space on another.
.
Warning: If used incorrectly, this program may destroy your filesystem. Use
with care.
Cheers,
Joost
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