[olug] Upgrade HD ?

[Jay Swackhamer]

I would
1. Boot off one a distro CD
2. partition the new drive the way that you would like it
  i.e.
   250MB   /boot
   10Gig   /
    5gig   /home
    1gig   swap
   1000000g  /opt

then mount the new filesystems
/mnt/new_sys/
/mnt/new_sys/boot
/mnt/new_sys/home


Then clone the partitions....

for i in / /home /boot /opt
do
  LVMOUNT1=$i
  LVMOUNT2=/mnt/new_sys/$i
  cd ${LV_MOUNT1}; find . -xdev -depth -print | cpio -pdm ${LV_MOUNT2}
done


or tar each filesystem from the old drive to a 'backup'
partition on the new drive, then untar each one to it's new
partition.....

> What is the easiest way to upgrade a hard drive under linux?  I read
> through the ldp/howto on hard drive upgrades.  I also ran across some
> email on using parted.
>
> Would it work to dd hda->hdb (where hda is old small drive, and hdb is new
> larger drive) and then use parted to grow the desired partitions?  Can
> parted be used for the whole job, i see there is an option to cp via
> parted.
>
> Looking for wisdom,
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
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