[olug] Upgrade HD ?

[Nick Walter]

I've never played with parted, but hard drive to hard drive
copying/replacement isn't too hard.

When I do it, I usually use the following steps.

1.)  Install new blank hard drive as secondary hard drive and make sure
linux sees it.  

2.)  Partition new hard drive as desired with fdisk or sfdisk.  Format
partitions as necessary/desired with mke2fs and mkswap.

3.)  copy files from original partitions to new partitions with cp. 
Make sure to use '-r -x' flags so cp will recurse but won't leave the
filesystem it is operating in.

4.)  Use grub or lilo to install the boot loader as appropriate to the
new hard drive if the new hard drive is going to be a boot device.

5.)  Remove original hard drive and hook up new hard drive to have the
same SCSI or IDE ID as the original drive.


I can give additional advice on any of the steps if they are confusing.

Nick Walter



On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:20, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> 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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