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blaggard
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 Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: Swapping HD |
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In my current configuration, I have setup the /home and a modest swap (in
addition to the swap on the primary HD) on a secondary 1 GB drive .
I want to swap this drive with a 10 GB drive - with possibly more than just
/home. Perhaps /MP3 :D
Question: How do I go about it? Can I just replace the drives and hope
things will work? What are the things I should look out for?
Any help in this regard is appreciated.
Thanks.
Blaggard
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jebba
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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How are you going to copy over your current /home partition? If you can temporarily copy it over to the root drive, then it's easier. You then just pop in the new drive and copy /home back.
Recommended copy command:
| Code: | | cp -a /home /home-old |
You'll need to partition the new drive, once it's connnected. Use the command:
| Code: | | /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc |
Where:
hda=primary master
hdb=primary slave
hdc=secondary master
hdd=secondary slave
You will also need to format the new drive. To format the new home partition:
| Code: | | /sbin/mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/hdc1 |
And to format the swap partition:
| Code: | | /sbin/mkswap /dev/hdc2 |
Of course you'll need to change hdc1/2 to match your setup. If you paste your /etc/fstab file here, I can tell you exactly what you should use.
Have fun :)
-Jeff
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blaggard
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:48 am Post subject: Re: Swapping HD |
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Jeff,
Thanks for the reply.
I can copy my HOME directory temporarily to /tmp (as root). Then
following your advice, I should be install and copy back the directory.
Would you recommend reiserfs for this? Why or why not?
I have copied my /etc/fstab file:
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom1 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:19 am Post subject: |
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I would stick with ext3. It is very common, reliable, ever-present, etc. Reiser may give you more headaches than it's optimizations are worth.
-Jeff
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