True. I'm on this list and not that, and there are some Fedora users here.
But, I'll go over to Fedora Forum.

Thanks!

Harold
> 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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