Moving the whole of gentoo to another hard drive?

[Raoul_Duke]

Background......i've been running redhat for ages and never been fully happy, i discovered Gentoo and you can guess what happened

Thing is.....i've spent ages setting it up and i'm not sure i can face doing it all over again. Gentoo is installed on a 8gb secondry hard drive. On the 60gb primary drive i have win2k and redhat.

Is there a way i could uninstall redhat and place my existing Gentoo installation on the partition

[joshdr77]

delete the redhat partion. use norton ghost to copy the partitions accross...set grub up.......it would be a good idea to get knoppix, live linux on a bootable cd incase things do go smooth.....

[kashani]

You can always fdisk various partitions of your 60 GZB drive, mount them as a temp folder, copy files over, then change your /etc/fstab to use the new partition on boot up.

/home would probably be easiest doing something like

fdisk /dev/hda1
slice it up how you're going to want to use it later.
make an ext3, xfs, whatever out of the new space
mount it as /newhome
cp -a /home/ /newhome

check things over to make sure the files and permissions look good.
edit your /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hdaX instead of the /dev/hdbX is probably is.

reboot. I just upgraded a Qmail servers with a 2GB /var partition to a 18GB drive as it's new /var partition.

Think about how you want to to do your /usr, /var, home, etc partitions before you start blowing things away.

kashani
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[Mitchybums]

I used ghost on my harddrive to add a swapfile to my system. (fs= ext2)
worked without any problems.
used the image a couple of times too to fix my system since I mess around a little too much.

[Raoul_Duke]

Cheers guys, that gives me something to think about

[plate]

Courtesy of lakiscv, this should make life a lot easier for you.

[Raoul_Duke]