[Mageia-discuss] Rearranging partitions

Fri Jul 22 15:18:48 CEST 2011

On 07/22/2011 07:03 AM, andre999 wrote:
+> TJ a écrit :
+>> At the moment, my hard drive setup is like this...
+>>
+>> I'd like to move my present Mandriva 2010.2 system partition (sdb1)to a
+>> different hard drive where my present Mageia system now resides (sda5),
+>> replace the contents of the present Mageia /home (sda7) with the
+>> important contents of the present Mandriva /home (sdb6), thus having it
+>> so I can boot into Mandriva on sda as my backup system. Then, I will do
+>> a clean install of Mageia on sdb1, leaving my original Mandriva /home
+>> intact, thus making Mageia my production system.
+>>
+>> I want to use sdb6 for my production /home because it is much larger
+>> than sda7. I suppose I could just switch the two /homes, but that would
+>> leave system and data on separate drives for both, and a hard drive
+>> failure would take out both systems. I prefer having system and data on
+>> the same drive.
+>>
+>> Can anybody offer suggestions on how to accomplish this herculean feat
+>> the easiest way possible? Oh, almost forgot - if it helps I do have an
+>> external usb drive big enough to back up the important parts of my
+>> production /home. In fact, that's what I use it for.
+>>
+>> TJ
+>
+> Would be glad to help you, I've done lots of juggling like that.
+> What are the sizes of the partitions ?
+> And how much free space does each have ?
+> What is available on the external drive ?
+> If the sizes of sda and sdb are comparable, it might be simpler to swap
+> drives.
+> If you have spare space on one of the internal drives, it would be a lot
+> faster than using an external drive (unless by chance it is usb3 -- both
+> ends)
+> Basically it would be better to minimize the data transferred.
+> One thing I do is define a number of other partitions than /home for
+> various files that would otherwise go into /home.
+> Like that you can keep a relatively small /home.
+>
+Sda is quite a bit smaller than sdb, and also contains a 48GB Windows XP 
+partition which I'd rather leave alone for the time being. The Mandriva 
+and Mageia system partitions are both 12GB. The Mandriva system 
+partition has 5.6 GB of open space, and the Mageia partition shouldn't 
+be quite that full. Sda7 is 88GB, while sdb6 is 215GB. Sdb6 currently 
+has 96 GB on it, but if I do some much-needed housekeeping I could 
+reduce that to fit on sda7 with room to spare. The external drive is 
+usb2, and 160GB.
+
+TJ
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