I hate to bring this up, but isn't "Fedora 9 First Impression" just a
little off-topic? I'm on a LUG mailing list and that's where I expect to
see these types of discussions, not the PICLIST. :)

Cheerful regards,

Bob


On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:27:00 -0700 (PDT), "Harold Hallikainen"
<harold@hallikainen.org> said:
> 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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