move data to larger drive

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 07:34, Timothy Payne wrote:
> So the question is if I copy the old to the new will the partitions
> expand to fill the space, if not how.
> 

I don't think they'll do so automatically, but parted is your friend.
You might need resize2fs as well.

> Will FC2 upgrade RH 7.3 ?
> 

*It* might but *I* sure wouldn't. Too many new changes, too far to jump
from one to the other. Better to do a clean install.

> Should I install FC2 on the larger drive then copy data over?  But I'm
> assuming I'll lose all the settings on the old drive.
> 

You may lose settings for your desktop background and whatever. Here
again, so many things have changed that I would just reconfigure my new
FC2 system and explore it in the process.

You do not have to "lose" anything really since all configuration files
can probably be brought over. *I* would just prefer to redo them when
moving to an operating system that's 4 whole releases newer.

Cheers,

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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