Moving FC4 to a new, larger disk
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Aug 14 12:56:25 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 10:46 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
> Hi
> I read the FAQs and old postings but found them somewhat dated, or
> maybe I am not getting it yet.
>
> I want to move my system to a new larger disk and I do not want to
> start over from Install.
>
> So, the solution would be to
> 1. Create the partitions in the new disk (boot, /, swap)
> 2. Copy the partitions contents to the new disk (except swap, of course)
> 3. Mumbo Jumbo grub.conf to the right settings once I upgrade the new
> disk from slave up to master.
>
> My problem is that I put LVM on the old disk in order to take
> advantage of easy disk handling, and now I find out the LVM tool kind
> of wanting. It will not even see my new disk until I partition and
> format it!
>
> I liked disk druid from the installation in Anaconda, but have not
> been able to call it up (Is it possible?).
>
> Likewise, I keep /home and /var in different partitions because I do
> not want to lose them if form some reason I have to reinstall linux
> (this is my home machine, no big deal).
>
> Could somebody point me out to a good guide? And, no, the LVM Howto is
> not it. I get a little more confused each time I read it.
What's your current setup?
# vgdisplay -v
# fdisk -l
# cat /etc/fstab
What would you like it to be?
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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