OK, long time reader, first time poster.

When i set up my machine I originally intended to have 2 HDD's - one linux(s) and the other winxp. Could only afford one though so I set it up thus:

hda: (80gig)

60gig: WinXP
20Gig: Red Hat 9
/with the following partitions:
15gig: /
5gig: /home
1gig: swap
(well, more or less)

So now I have purchased another 80g HD (hdb) and want to move the RH install to it. There's all sorts of posts on LQ about this sorta thing but I couldn't find answers to my specific question so feel free to point me to the thread if I've missed it!

Question:

Can I move/copy the data from the current RH partitions (and re-install GRUB of course so it accesses the new /boot/grub.conf) easily (ParitionMagic? / other?) and still have it boot with everything ("everything" being the RH boot scripts, etc) pointing to the right spots? (the latter being the primary part of the question)

Edit: Better put (I think ) : If I copy the data to the new HD, will RH9 die because it's expecting things to be on hda?

.thefly.

No RH wont die

Hmm. ok, thx for that.

Is there anything specific I should be aware of?

I'm thinking /etc/fstab or anything like that?

.thefly.

and how r u planning to move the RH to ur new HD

well.. that's the other part of my question!

I'm thinking of moving the partition/s with PartitionMagic or perhaps booting with a CD, mounting the part's and copying files (altho there's several obvious issues there)..

..all suggestions welcome!

.thefly.

EDIT: hmm.. after all this time, you'd think I'd search the LDP wouldn't ya?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/