On Thursday 05 September 2002 16:21, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >I'm thinking of making one backup to use in place (like you suggest) and
> >the original and an extra off site; and another new one in place as the
> >on-line rsync'd unit. For under $100/drive, it is cheap insurance.
>
> Just ordered 5400RPM 20gig drives (closest I could find to my 13gig) - $65
> each :)
> Love it - I remember that in about 1994, a friend was VP of Maxtor and told
> us to just watch out, drives will be under $.10 (10 cents) a meg soon; I
> think I just paid about $.005/meg (1/2 cent per meg).
>
> If a mirrored drive is brought on-line, is there a way to partition and
> gain the extra 7 gig over the 13gig the drive will natively run as?
>
> I'll be sure to write to this list after doing this procedure and report
> anything good/bad/indifferent that would be of interest (like how long the
> dd and rsync's take).
Intall the new "dded" 20GB disk as the operating disk
As root, shut down anything using the /home partition.
The idea is to get rid of all the processes using /home partition
sendmail, httpd, ahttpd (admserv), qpopper, "just about everything"
Don't shutdown sshd as you need it and it does not use /home
Note: this gets more difficult to do since cobalt is symlinking everything to
/home, instead of providing sizeable standard Linux partitons.
tar the /home partition up, save it anyplace except /home
Then run fdisk and delete the /home partition (hda4)
[it won't let you if any process is using it, shut down more processes]
fdisk comand is 'd'
partition to delete is 4
Then create a new /home partition, using all available space (default)
fdisk command is 'n'
partition to create is 4
id it as 83 (e2fs)
fdisk command 't'
partition 4
hex code is 83
Quit fdisk - write new partition table
fdisk command is 'w'
run mke2fs on /dev/hda4, the new /home partition.
then untar the saved /home/partition
This will give you a /home partition 7 GB larger than original.
then reboot the computer (easiest way to start all the stopped processes)
If it doesn't work you always have your original hd to go back to,
experiment,
have fun!
The above is from memory, so it might not work, If you need help with this
let
me know.