Moving Linux from-to drives

[Icarus]

I'm going to put Linux on my larger hard drive now that I'm ready to make the big move :)
The current setup is the boot drive is 4.5gb with RedHat7.2 using GRUB to boot to Windows or RedHat. The second drive is a 30gb ATA100 running as master on the Promise drive. I plan on using Ghost to copy the RedHat drive onto the 30gb drive, this will change it from hda to hde (can't get around that I've tried), then use the 4.5 as a new Windows partition (New install going there).

My question is...will this hose up the Linux data because it has moved from a to e? I know I'll have to re-write GRUB for the change, but that is minor.

[ 05 December 2001: Message edited by: mahdi ]

[sans-hubris]

Originally posted by mahdi:
<STRONG>I'm going to put Linux on my larger hard drive now that I'm ready to make the big move :)
The current setup is the boot drive is 4.5gb with RedHat7.2 using GRUB to boot to Windows or RedHat. The second drive is a 30gb ATA100 running as master on the Promise drive. I plan on using Ghost to copy the RedHat drive onto the 30gb drive, this will change it from hda[b/] to [b]hde (can't get around that I've tried), then use the 4.5 as a new Windows partition (New install going there).

My question is...will this hose up the Linux data because it has moved from a to e? I know I'll have to re-write GRUB for the change, but that is minor.</STRONG>It shouldn't. You're just moving data, right?

[demian]

Remember to change the /etc/fstab entries, too.

[Icarus]

Yes, this is just going to copy the drive over to where the windows is now and windows will be installed on the old linux drive

[deadlock]

just as a matter of interest, is there any way to run Disk Druid in RedHat 7, after installation ?

I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it; RedHat doesn't include cfdisk and fdisk is far more work than I deem necessary. I had to resort to using Webmin to partition a new drive recently! How messed up is that ?

[Icarus]

Originally posted by wonk:
<STRONG>just as a matter of interest, is there any way to run Disk Druid in RedHat 7, after installation ?

I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it; RedHat doesn't include cfdisk and fdisk is far more work than I deem necessary. I had to resort to using Webmin to partition a new drive recently! How messed up is that ?</STRONG>

You should be able to run from booting the CD...
Well, this was reletivly painless (besides re-installing Windows on a 4 gig drive :)) I still need to allocate the extra space the drive 'suddenly developed' :D
Anything like partition magic for Linux? Or would it be easier just to make a new partition with the new space?