On 10/08/2009 12:13 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 10/08/2009 10:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> >>> On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding >>>> boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different >>>> hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? >>>> >>>> If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly >>>> straightforward way. >>>> >>>> However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 >>>> GB solid-state drive, just for fun... >>>> >>>> I suspect a re-install might be easier. >>>> >>>> - Mike >>>> >>>> >>> gparted (or qtparted) will do what you want. I don't remember if it >>> can resize the partitions as you copy them, but in the worst case you >>> can resize first then copy. >>> >>> or you can use cp -a to copy over all necessary files and run >>> grub-install to restore the grub boot loader if it's installed in MBR >>> (default) >>> >>> >> There is a potential problem when using partition resizing - it can mess >> up the partition tables and render the drive unbootable - need to be >> careful here, as it "bit me in the a.."! >> >> FWIW, >> Dan >> >> > > Really? > I've never had gparted bite me in the ass like that. Happened a few > times with PartitionMagic in the past, though. > > Yes. What happened was that different resizing and moving partitions around left behind "ghost" table entries and confused certain disk programs but was transparent to fdisk. I was forced to erase the entire drive and lay down the partitions ONCE, and leave it alone. What I decided to do was to set each of my new OS drives in a specific way, every time, allowing for multiple OS installations, planned or not. This was not a problem with older versions of linux distros, but Fedora changed *something* in regards to the anaconda installer and it FAILED to find a SINGLE partition because it "barfed" when it encountered "extraneous" table entries. This happened to me for F10 and for F11. I did not wanted to go through that nightmare again. It is possible there was a bug, but since it happened to me on F10 & F11, this is the course of action that I decided to take, at least, for now. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
