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Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Adam Carter: |
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> I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived |
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> today. |
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> Old setup; 60 gig drive; |
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> /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) |
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> /dev/hda2 = swap |
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> /dev/hda3 = / |
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> New setup; 250 gig drive |
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> /dev/hda1 = / (including /home) |
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> /dev/hda2 = swap |
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Hmm, I don't like those all-in-one-partition setups. But as always: YMMV. |
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However, since this is a laptop, I would recommend encrypting the |
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partitions. But that would mean to use a separate /boot and booting the |
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system from an initramfs (needed to unlock the real / partition). The setup |
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would be like this: |
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hda1: /boot (32M, ext2) |
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hda2: swap |
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hda3: / (rest of disk) |
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However, I would use a different setup on my systems: |
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hda1: /boot (32M, ext2) |
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hda2: LVM, rest of disk. |
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Then put everything into small (as possible) logical volumes. |
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> Here's my plan; |
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> - make a new lilo.conf entry to boot off /dev/hda1, then run 'lilo -v' |
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I wonder why people still use lilo. |
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> - boot knoppix |
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> - dump /dev/hda3 (/) to USB external drive with 'mount /dev/hda3 |
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> /mnt/root ; rsync -a /mnt/root /usbdrive/' - dump /dev/hda1 (/home) to |
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> USB drive with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/home ; rsync -a /mnt/home |
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> /usbdrive/' - dump MBR to USB drive with 'dd if=/dev/hda |
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> of=/usbdrive/mbr_backup bs=512 count=1' |
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> - power down, swap hda to new drive, boot knoppix again |
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> - add boot record without partition table, 'dd if=/whatever/mbr_backup |
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> of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1' - 'fdisk /dev/hda', create one linux |
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I wouldn't write the mbr from the old drive to the new one. Just let lilo |
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write a new mbr to the new drive. |
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> partition using most of the disk and one linux swap partition - put |
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> filesystem on /dev/hda1 with 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda1' |
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> - dump old / to /dev/hda1 with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/root ; rsync -a |
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> /usbdrive/root/* /mnt/root' - dump old /home onto /dev/hda1 with 'rsync |
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> -a /usbdrive/home /mnt/root' - create swap 'mkswap /dev/hda2' |
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> then reboot and use the new lilo entry that points to /dev/hda1. |
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> Will it work? |
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Yes, looks good. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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