new hard drive

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 01:31:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:43 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I have a problem that I haven't encountered before on linux. My hard
> drive is almost full.
>
> I am wondering what I can do. Install a second drive and copy all my
> partitions, then remove the old drive and still have a bootable drive?

Others have made good suggestions.  You might also consider going LVM
for at least some of your partitions.  That way after you've migrated
to the new drive, you can add the old drive to your LVM and the two
drives look like one big one to linux.

Just a thought,
Brian




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