Hi everyone,

I am having a tricky situation here and I would like to get some opinions of how I should handle this:


I'm currently running RH 9 (main O/S) dual booting Win2K.



My HDD setup is the following

/dev/hda (40GB - "old" HDD)
PARTITION -------------------- SIZE
/boot -------------------- (100)
/ -------------------- (REMAINING)
swap -------------------- (1020)
vfat (Win2K) -------------------- 4GB


/dev/hdb (60GB)
PARTITION -------------------- SIZE
/home -------------------- 5.5GB
/data -------------------- (REMAINING)


/dev/hdd (120GB)
1 SINGLE PARTITION (NTFS) for STORAGE OF DATA


NOTE:
I'm a new owner of a SEAGATE BARRACUDA ATA IV (80 GB, 7200rpm, 2MB)


Considering that the system saves all my users' information on the second HDD, I should be able to simply replace the FIRST AND OLD HDD (40GB) with the new one (80GB Seagate). I probably will just go ahead and reinstall both O/Ses again since I don't want to deal with system HDD images or any of that sort of stuff right now.

Now to my question: Will it automatically see all the information from /home (/dev/hdb) and import it into the newly installed O/S (for example: all my Galeon bookmarks, all my EMAILS (KMAIL), etc... )?
Or should I consider setting up my system in a different way. Please advise!!!

Thanks guys! You guys just simply rock!

All you settings should be back - bookmarks, mail and such things are in /home. If you have system-wide settings you'd like to keep, copy files from /etc to a safe place. When installing RedHat, make sure you choose it to use your old /home and /data (you can do this). Then it should be OK.

You dont even need to reinstall.

www.tldp.org have a good document about moving an install to a new hardisk. It's a bit tricky to find though

thank you very much for your responses Mara and fatgod.

I did it the "old-fashion" way by simply reinstalling everything and it indeed had saved everthing as it was supposed to. After RH was back installed, i got all my old bookmarks, my emails back etc..

however, I also liked that link a lot..I'll be checking it out...it's definetely good to read all those howtos and guides as I'm still a Linux

thanks again folks!

You mean you did it the "windows" way The "old-fashion" way is to hack and slash until it works

But cool! Glad it all worked out, and yes the dudes at tldp are way cool Anyway, eveyone is a newbie to somethig

Have fun!

O.

although windows never has such an option to really re-implement your stuff as linux does with hehe....thanks again!

Good point