On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 20:59 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: > On 27 January 2012 20:37, Kwpolska <kwpolska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I bought a new PC. I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for > > data movement. I created this, can someone please tell me if it's > > okay, and, if it's not, what should I change? > > > > 01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD. > > 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC. > > 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes, > > EXCEPT Shared [NTFS]) > > 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home, > > Shared) > Maybe you shouldn't dd them. If you dd, you will copy every single > byte from the old partition. Maybe you can save (a lot) of time if you > just rsync/cp them. > > 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.) > > # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? # > Yeah, you should resize the filesystem to fill the partition but I > have no idea how to do that manually. Parted magic does it for me. If you cp -pr all files from the old to the new drive, there's no need to resize. If you take care about globbing, everything, aka all files will be copied. > > 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size. > > 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it. > > 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD > > to the NEWPC. > > 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video) > > 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC. > > 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC. Re-install GRUB. Why won't you install Windows first? > > 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD. Copy some bigger Steam > > games to the NEWHDD. > > 14. At long last, profit.
