I FINALLY tried out CloneZilla, and it worked quite well. I've now moved
from a 100GB drive to a 500GB drive under Fedora Core 4. Now... what do I
do to repartition it to use the whole drive? Here's what I get from df:

[harold@sujan ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      107G   61G   41G  60% /
/dev/hda1              99M   93M  1.3M  99% /boot
/dev/shm              502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
[harold@sujan ~]$


THANKS for the assistance. I'm sure it's documented somewhere, but I have
not yet found it.

Harold


> Also might check out cute partition manager. And the drives usually come
> (or available on the web) utilities to handle transfer to a new drive,
> backup, etc.
>
> Dr Skip wrote:
>> Clonezilla will take a partition image and put it on a larger partition,
>> and
>> can do a disk-disk copy too. It may be what you want.
>>
>> -Skip
>>
>>
>> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Fedora 9 on this HP laptop that I'm on right now. It's
>>> generally working quite well. Luckily, though, I'm doing image backups
>>> with g4l. After it had worked quite well for a while, one morning it
>>> would
>>> come up and say "GRUB" and just stop. So, I reloaded a good image and
>>> was
>>> back in business. Then, this week, there was an upgrade that kills the
>>> machine just prior to the login screen. It left the caps lock LED
>>> flashing. I went back to a good image. The system did another upgrade
>>> with
>>> the same result. So, back to the good image and don't allow the
>>> upgrade.
>>> that is crashing the system. So, I'll hold off the upgrades for a
>>> while...
>>>
>>> Drifting on the Fedora thread, I'm running a server with Fedora 4. I
>>> want
>>> to put a larger hard drive in it. From what I've read, just copying an
>>> image from the old drive will only use that portion of the new 500GB
>>> drive
>>> that corresponds to the old 100GB drive. I've read all sorts of
>>> relatively
>>> complex methods of getting the system to use the whole new drive. I'm
>>> thinking there's got to be an easier way. One thing I'm thinking of is
>>> doing a fresh install to he new drive, then copying files from the old
>>> drive to the new. Even that seems complex, though, in that if I were to
>>> copy fstab (and who knows what else), I'd probably destroy the new
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Harold
>>>
>>>
>>>
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