[mdlug] Redesigning Gate

[Garry Stahl]

Gate's hda is failing.  I am moving things off and I have the
replacement drive in hand.  However, it's a 500 gig drive, that is as
much storage as the rest of the machine. 

As I also plan to upgrade to 10.3 it is time for a rebuild.

Currently:
hda -- 80 gig Fat32, windows partitions.  Good bye.
hdb -- 80 gig  Reiser, Linux swap  root and home partitions.
hdg -- 160 gig, Reiser where home really is simlinked.
hdh -- 250 gig  Reiser, used for backup.

The other letters are filled with two optical, one Zip and a removable
hard drive bay.  Not sure of the order.

Plan:  STAGE ONE:
Hda -- 500 gig 
    hda1 -- 2 gig Linux swap
    hda2 -- 30 gig ext 3 SuSE 10.3 root
    hda3  -- 468 gig ext3 /home
hdb -- 80 gig
    hdb1 -- 2 gig Linux swap
    hdb2  -- 20 gig Reiser SuSE 9.3 root
    hdb3 -- 52 gig Reiser former /home
hdg -- 160 gig
    hdg1 -- Reiser /data1 -- for back up
hdh -- 250 gig
    hdh1 -- Reiser /data2 -- for back up.

various CD/DVD/zip drives stay put.

Now, the hard part, for me, is moving /home to the hda3 drive without
losing anything and allowing both the 9.3 and the 10.3 installs to use
it.  9.3 gets used for production until I get 10.3 working to my
satisfaction, no more than week or so I would hope.  It's matter of
getting everything in working order and tuning the interface to make me
happy, with help might take an evening.


STAGE TWO:

Pulling all hard drives except hda and replacing hdb with a second 500
gig drive etx 3 /data and syncing it to the /root and /home for back
ups.  Optical drives might get moved about.

Grub will not be happy.  That I will need help with.


Oh and not really happy with SLED.  I want  openSUSE10.3 on the laptop.




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