Giving FC3 breathing room

Mad Cow · #1 23rd March 2005, 08:48 PM

I just bought a new 160 G hard drive, got it installed, configured, etc.

My FC3 installation is feeling a bit cramped on it's 9 G partition, and I'd like to move it to a larger partition. Is there a way I can merely copy all of FC3 onto a different partition without needing to reinstall? Naturally I'd have to adjust the bootloader or perhaps even reinstall it, but that's easy enough. I just don't want to figure out all of the software I have installed and try to get it again and configure everything again.

Thanks!

Mad Cow · #2 23rd March 2005, 10:22 PM

While I'm at it, I used qtparted to partition the 160 G. After I formatted it all into ext3, qtparted told me that 7.5 G were already being used on the drive. I know hard drives don't hold quite as much as is advertised (160 G means 150 G capacity) but is it normal for the filesystem itself to cause another percentage of the drive to disappear?

awdac · #3 23rd March 2005, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad Cow

... is it normal for the filesystem itself to cause another percentage of the drive to disappear?

To an extent, yes. With journaled filesystems (ext3, reiser, et al.) for instance, there must be room for the journals.

nandowong · #4 23rd March 2005, 10:53 PM

maybe edit your fstab file to mount the 160gb under /home

I deleted my xp install last month and i just cp /home /mnt/data then mounted the new partion under /home then cp /mnt/data /home.

now i have all the space i need without having to reinstall

Mad Cow · #5 24th March 2005, 01:13 AM

I was considering doing that, actually. I even had my home directory copied out and ready to go. The thing was that I wanted to reorganize all of my partitions, however, to utilize a better setup. I know it doesn't actually matter much, but I'm very picky about that kinda thing for some reason.

I did try to copy my whole installation over, but the copy always seemed to stall or get hung up while trying to process a few symlinks gone awry.

I think I may just do a reinstall, though, because I always seem to enjoy having everything nice and clean again. Although, Linux doesn't seem to have half as much trouble staying fresh for long periods of time as Windows does, if you get my meaning. Maybe this time I'll install the PHP and MySQL stuff too.