Hi there,

I have a sort of a problem and i hope someone can help me.

I have a server ( running on Slackware 12.1 ) with a disk-space / memory problem.

so i bought a new harddrive and new memory, and this are the steps i want to do :

adding the new harddrive to the excisting system
copy all the data to the new hdd
dismantle the system
setup the new system ( OS Debian )
add the new hdd ( including the backed up data )
Run my new server

I want my new hdd with a reiserfs filesystem
I hope someone can help me with the adding (hdd) part

Tobas

Presuming you don't have a favourite backup program and want to do this by terminal commands, do as follows
1. power down; add new drive wherever and jumper accordingly. If you don't have space, remove the cdrom to make space.
2. power up; cfdisk or fdisk if you must, and partition.
3. Back up to /home, /var, or some other partitions that won't be filled by your new debian system when it comes along. cp -a works fine. Tar is messy, because you are changing OS, and you run the risk of altering stuff with an overwrite. There are switches to get round it, but it's still messy. K.I.S.S. Then any perms problems yield to chmod -R
4. Install your new drive as hda/sda, remove old drive, and
5. boot on Debian CD and install
6. If you have the hardware space, leave the old drive there for a while, (as hdb or sdb) and add a grub entry to boot from it. You may need it one day.

Thx,

im gonna try it as soon im at home.
Its only to backup stuff like scripts, holiday pictures / movies, so thats not distro sensitive.
but my 500 gb is running low on space, now adding 1 tb to do the job

Thx again for the quick response

Tobas