Hi all,

I have search through LQ before asking this question. if this question is all ready answered please direct me to the source.

I would like to upgrade my old hard disk to a new hard disk as the old disk is more than 3 years old and has started to move slowly. The datas and application operating in this machine is very critical and i would not want to migrate to a diffrent machine as the cost will be high. migrating to a diffrent hard disk will be a better option.by the way the machine is on Redhat 9

partiton on old and to create on new disk the exactly same.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8.7GB 234MB 8.0GB 3% /
/dev/sda1 502MB 14MB 462MB 3% /boot
/dev/sda3 7.3GB 1.1GB 5.9GB 15% /home
none 528MB 0 528MB 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 16GB 2.3GB 13GB 16% /usr
/dev/sdb2 2.5GB 86MB 2.3GB 4% /var




please help.





thank you

If I understand you correctly, you want to move your data/partitions from the old hard drive to a new hard drive. If this is the case and you're buying a retail hard drive, they usually come with software to handle this (well, at least Maxtor does).
If you don't have the software you can read this for some assistance.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/m...no/parted.html

BTW: the front-end for parted is Qtparted, also parted and qtparted is usually listed in the packages list of your distro, that is if it isn't installed already.


peace V

hi

thank you for the info, it will be usefull for me...but i have found other solution to solve the problem, have a look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.

The problem is here the hard disks are sold in loose. so there is no specific manul or software. anyway thank you, i will use this method as an alternative....if there is any other way please do forward me the detail.



regards

trysten

The hard drive companies also offer their software as a free download. If you have the name of the hard drive and head on over to their website.



peace V