Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

[Brent Harding <bharding@doorpi.net>]

With parted, how do I move the start of a partition back to fill
unallocated space? I realize that I got a mistake, with partitions 1 and 3,
and unallocated space between. I want to move the beginning of 3 to fill
where 2 was taken out.
At 08:24 AM 12/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>OK, I understand this better now. I don't know Debian particularly. Most 
>of my experience is with Redhat, where the initial boot disk doesn't 
>matter as much, as long as you have the more up to date CD ROMs or ISO 
>images. I certainly do understand about wanting to minimize the work 
>involved.
>
>Because the best laid plans can so oft go astray, I suspect it's still 
>wise to back up critical files to the extent you can. This should include 
>the things that are not easily replaced--yhour data files from /home, 
>anything you've spent time configuring and tweaking in /etc, certainly 
>your mail spool file in /var/spool/mail.  If you have the full Debian 
>install and the space to put that on your current hd, you might want to 
>consider rsync to bring it up to date and then burning a new set of CD 
>ROMS before undergoing to hardware work. If that's a reasonable 
>possibility, it could prove worth it.
>
>My most recent experience with something like this came last spring. I set 
>out to drop a new slave hard drive into my office computer. Something went 
>wrong and my old hard unexpectedly came up dead. I had no choice but to 
>reinstall from scratch. For the first time in my life, after just a brief 
>moment of panic, I realized that I was really OK because everything 
>important was backed up. Today, the knowledge that my critical data is 
>backed up gives me the confidence to play around with parted which is new 
>to me. As with most things new, mistakes come along with the successes. 
>But, it's no hardship because of the backups.
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> 
>> simply install then move the data, including appropriate /etc
>> > configurations, back over. Certainly seems more secure and less
>> > experimental to me.
>> I would say you are basically right, only how far would I have to go with
>> the install? What I don't like is that I have to use speakup disk that are
>> an older version than my present system, and I don't want to install the
>> old kernel and base system etc. If I can just use the debian rescue and
>> root disk to create my partitions and initialize them I don't have
>> aproblem, but I'm trying to avoid having to use ppp at all and having to
>> do a massive upgrade after I install.
>> 
>> Cheryl
>> 
>> 
>> 
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