I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived today. Old setup; 60 gig drive; /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = /
New setup; 250 gig drive /dev/hda1 = / (including /home) /dev/hda2 = swap Here's my plan; - make a new lilo.conf entry to boot off /dev/hda1, then run 'lilo -v' - boot knoppix - dump /dev/hda3 (/) to USB external drive with 'mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/root ; rsync -a /mnt/root /usbdrive/' - dump /dev/hda1 (/home) to USB drive with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/home ; rsync -a /mnt/home /usbdrive/' - dump MBR to USB drive with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/usbdrive/mbr_backup bs=512 count=1' - power down, swap hda to new drive, boot knoppix again - add boot record without partition table, 'dd if=/whatever/mbr_backup of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1' - 'fdisk /dev/hda', create one linux partition using most of the disk and one linux swap partition - put filesystem on /dev/hda1 with 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda1' - dump old / to /dev/hda1 with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/root ; rsync -a /usbdrive/root/* /mnt/root' - dump old /home onto /dev/hda1 with 'rsync -a /usbdrive/home /mnt/root' - create swap 'mkswap /dev/hda2' then reboot and use the new lilo entry that points to /dev/hda1. Will it work? tnx
