[CLUE-Tech] Red Hat 7.3 upgrade - /usr partition too small

[Todd Williams]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:59:38AM -0600, Paul Bille wrote:
> >Oooo!  That sounds almost too good to be true.  Is it really that
> >simple?  I'll have to try it.
> 
> Yes, you can certainly do that.  Basically, just re-partition your drive to
> be  however you want it, then restore the data and boot up with the new
> partition layout, *THEN* do the upgrade...  It'll work like a charm...
> 
> It can be a little tricky -- make sure you modify your /etc/fstab, update
> lilo.conf/grub.conf if you are moving /boot around, and update the root
> partition.

I am currently running on a "variant" of that - I got a second hard disk that
is big enough to hold all of my data, made it one big partition so it actually
would have enough space (I also made a swap partition), then used "cp -a" to copy
each of my original partitions over to it.  Then edited the /etc/fstab on the "new"
drive to reflect it's layout, and added a lilo.conf entry, and booted right into it.
I then made a boot floppy so that I could repartition/reformat the original hard
drive as much as I liked while preserving the original system and data.  I have tried
two distros so far without losing the original system, I just mount the drive and
copy config info and users home dirs.  This was because the original distro was too
old to "upgrade".

Todd Williams