[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

Ben Fitzgerald ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 2 14:25:14 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:20:05PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > > Is there any urgent reason to replace the existing disk, though?  Would
> > > you be prepared to just add the second disk as extra capacity in the
> > > short term?  If you are, then LVM will make it much easier to do a
> > > migration if you do want to remove the original disk altogether in the
> > > long term.
> > 
> > It's not urgent.
> 
> Then just bung the new disk in as extra storage.  Remember to reserve
> some space for the root/boot partition if you are eventually going to
> retire the first disk.

It's a one disk system. It's my pvr. Hence disk greedy but only room for
one hd.

Ben
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