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Dear All, |
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I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided |
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to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also |
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going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. |
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I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the |
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gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things. I need this |
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to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have |
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too much time for messing around. |
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My current partition table looks like this: |
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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / |
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Solaris |
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/dev/sda3 69 9729 77601982+ 83 Linux |
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I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 |
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being a lot bigger. |
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So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm |
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wrong. |
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1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the |
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partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc. |
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Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? |
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2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp |
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Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct |
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replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to |
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change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without |
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modification? |
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Here's my current grub.conf: |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz |
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title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 |
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video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x800-24@70 |
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title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 |
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video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x800-24@70 |
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3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my |
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fingers :-) Will it work? |
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Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated |
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Matt |
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee |
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CASEB & ECIM |
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Departamento de Ecologia, |
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P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, |
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Alameda 340, Santiago. |
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CP 6513677 |
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CHILE |
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matt@××××××××××.org |
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mlee@×××××××.cl |
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URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org |
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