Re: Replacing a HD
On 07.04.07 17:40, Frank McCormick wrote:
> I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment
> this is the way hda is setup:
>
> ~ ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
> ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
> - -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
> ~ 1 0x00 1 1 0 0x82 14 63 416 63 394002
> ~ 2 0x00 0 1 417 0x83 14 63 1023 394065 31444875
> ~ 3 0x80 14 63 1023 0x83 14 63 1023 31838940 25597215
> ~ 4 0x00 14 63 1023 0x05 14 63 1023 57436155 1163295
> ~ 5 0x00 14 63 1023 0x82 14 63 1023 63 1163232
hda5 is only one partition in hda4, which is an extended partition.
This is quite useless, I would set up hda4 directly and avoid using extended
partition...
> My system boots from hda3 using grub. hda1 and hda5 are swap partitions.
but two swap partitions are useless, so 3 partitions will be enough for you
> Whats the best way to get an exact copy of my two Linux systems onto the
> new drive? I am not so concerned with the two swap partitions, as I can
> create merge them into one on the new HD later.
yes, do it. Simply create partitions, configure filresystems on them and
copy data using dump or tar... the only problem might be setting up boot
from new drive. I use hacks like setting up 'disk=' and 'bios=' in
lilo.conf.
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