[mdlug] Redesigning Gate

[Michael ORourke]

This is how I would proceed...
Prep work; install grub on /dev/hdb and *verify* that you can successfully 
boot from that drive.  Probably need to tweak your BIOS settings to boot 
from drive2 to verify.  Once you have it booting from /dev/hdb, power down, 
then swap out the old hda with the new one.
Boot the system, partition the new drive, create a filesystem, and format 
it.  (gparted, or the partitioner in Yast works great here).
Go to single user mode:
# /sbin/init S
Make a mount point:
# mkdir /mnt/new-home
Mount new filesystem:  (assuming an ext3 filesystem on the first partition)
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/new-home
Change to the old home directory:
# cd /home
Copy files:
# pax -rw -v -pe . /mnt/new-home
Unmount the new filesystem:
# umount /mnt/new-home
Change to the root directory:
# cd /
Unmount the old home
# umount  /home
Edit /etc/fstab and change home from /dev/hdb3 to /dev/hda1
# vi /etc/fstab
Mount /dev/hda1 as /home (should read changes in fstab)
# mount /home
Go to multi user mode:
# /sbin/init 5
Done!

Suggestion... you might want to omit the "-v" switch in the pax command 
above so you don't see all the files as they are being moved.

-Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Stahl" <tesral at comcast.net>
To: "MDLUG Main" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:35 PM
Subject: [mdlug] Redesigning Gate


> 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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