[mythtv-users] OT: Turning 2 Harddrives into 1....

[Boyd II, Willy]

Would he run into any problems copying from the same filesystem where he's
currently running from?  I've always just booted from a boot cd or floppy
(like Gentoo's live cd, there's many others), mounted my source &
destination partitions, & used cp -a (IIRC -a preserves more of the file
info, and also does recursive like -R).  But granted that was running on the
assumption that I might have problems copying everything from my current
root then having it boot.

- Willy

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Blomfield [mailto:ScottB at Cavps.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:59 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Turning 2 Harddrives into 1....


If you can install your new hard drive in your machine, you might be
able to follow the steps below. As always, please review very carefully
whenever you run anything someone else posts =) I make no guarantees on
the accuracy of this. If you wipe your current hdd ... I am not
responsible, etc ... you get the idea.

Run fdisk to set up partitions for /, /home, swap and anything else you
need.
Make sure that you create the partitions in the same order as they are
on your current drive. (i.e. if / is first, then /home, then swap,
create it in the same order on the new drive, or you will need to update
fstab on the new drive)

Run mkfs for each partition that you need to format.
Run mkswap for your new partition. 
Mount the new /home partition to /mnt/new_home
cd /home
cp -R . /mnt/new_home
mount the new / partition on /mnt/new_hdd
cd /
cp -R -x . /mnt/new_hdd

I think this should pretty much cover what you are after. If it doesn't
then someone else will need to help you out.

Apologies in advance for any switch or syntax errors, I'm typing this up
on a windows machine and running from memory until I get home! If
someone could please post and let the poor guy know if the commands in
this email are correct, then that'd be great.

The only real difficult part in here that you have to remember is the -x
on the last cp, which tells cp to stay on one filesystem (or you will
copy /home again). All the information above can be gleaned from the man
pages of the associated commands.

Cheers,

Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Santoni [mailto:GameGod at sympatico.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:32 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: Turning 2 Harddrives into 1....

Hey,
I'm investing in a new big harddrive for my Myth machine.
I currently have two 20 gig drives in there. One has the /home partition
on
it, and the other has the / and /swap partitions on it. I want to copy
these
partitions over to the new drive so I don't have to reinstall, and
resize
one of the partitions to take up the extra space.

Is this possible? Or do I basically have to reinstall?

Thanks,

Albert Santoni

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