Hello,

I'm running SuSE 8.1 and in my current configuration, I have the following disks and partitions setup:

hda is 60GB containing the following mount points:
/ (ReiserFS)
swap
/boot (ext2)

hdb is also 60GB and contains:
/home (ReiserFS)

I have just purchased a 160GB drive and would like to replace both the above with this single drive. My questionn is, what's the easiest way to move all the data from the 2 old drives into the new one? I would like to avoid having to reinstall the OS if possible. Also, what about the boot loader (I'm using GRUB)? Can that just be copied over or does it need to be reinstalled? Naturally I'd like to increase the /home and / partitions on the new drive, maybe even create a new partition for /srv.

Thanks for your help.

Question: Is your system limited to 2 IDE drives?

Another Question: What is your used/free disk space on your existing partitions. (output of df). In other words is your total used disk space less than 60 GB?

If the answer is no to both, do it like this. Shutdown. Replace the disk with /home (hdb) with the new disk. You might want to edit the fstab first so it does not try to mount /home, but it should be OK without doing that. Partition the as you would like. Mount in temporary location and copy over the data to appropriate locations. Shutdown. Replace the edited fstab with the old one if it was edited. Take out the old /usr (hda), put in the new disk as hda. Put in the old /home back to hdb. Boot up and you should be fine.

you can back up your diskt with partion magic and restore them on the other drive and make the resizing afterwards.

Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To

How to copy a Linux system from one disk to another.